Search Results for: civil rights era

Civil Rights Activism in the “Jim Crow North”

August 20, 2020August 27, 2020 Matthew F. Delmont New York, segregation

Where did Jim Crow segregation and civil rights activism take place? A great deal hinges on how this question gets

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How Racist Ideas Shaped the Era of Reconstruction

August 18, 2020August 17, 2020 Rann Miller racism, reconstruction

Growing up, I’ve heard many definitions of the term racism, however just last year I read the best definition to

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Black Radical Abner Berry and the Limitations of Liberal Alliances

July 30, 2020July 29, 2020 Denise Lynn archives, black politics, Black radicalism, capitalism

In the midst of the historical moment that has been the long 2020, we are witnessing several convergences which some

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‘Duty Beyond the Battlefield’: A New Book About Black Soldiers’ Role in Shaping Early Civil Rights

May 25, 2020June 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors black soldiers, civil rights, military

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

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The Ungovernable Carceral State

April 9, 2020April 5, 2020 Melanie Newport #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, carceral state, 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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