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Confronting Reactionaries: Black Support for The Progressive Party During the Cold War

May 4, 2020May 3, 2020 Denise Lynn anti-capitalism, Black political thought, black politics, capitalism, Communism, Communist Party, Politics

During the Cold War, progressive voices were being drowned out by the drumbeat of war, as military and political relations

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W.E.B. Du Bois: A New Book on The Life of a Radical Scholar

May 1, 2020April 26, 2020 J. T. Roane biography, Black radicalism, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Undaunted Resistance: Joseph Lowery and the Spirit of SCLC

April 30, 2020April 26, 2020 R. Drew Smith Activism, Black church, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, religion

Against all odds, a movement for racial justice took hold in mid-20th-century America, emerging from within the racially-heated South, and

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Art for the People’s Sake: Chicago’s Black Arts Movement

April 16, 2020April 12, 2020 Tracey Johnson art, Black Arts Movement, Black Power, book review, Chicago, Visual Culture

The past five years have brought numerous fifty-year Civil Rights and Black Power Movement commemorations to the fore. Last year,

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Occupied Territory: An Author’s Response

April 10, 2020April 5, 2020 Simon Balto #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, Chicago, police brutality, police violence, policing

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing

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