Search Results for: civil rights era

Literacy, History, and African American Spirituals

December 13, 2018December 24, 2018 Karen Cook Bell #BlackLivesMatter, race, religion, Resistance, slavery

In his 1935 interview with Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Quarterman, a ninety-one-year-old formerly enslaved man, shared a

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The Civil Rights Movement for Intellectual Change

December 11, 2018December 24, 2018 Joshua Clark Davis Activism, black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement, Gender

More than half a century since the 1960s, scholars and citizens alike continue to grapple with how our country should

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Scales of Struggle and the Carceral State

October 29, 2018November 3, 2018 Dan Berger Jim Crow

The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court dashed the hopes of those wanting judicial protections to access abortion,

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The Struggle for Voting Rights and the Poor People’s Campaign

October 26, 2018November 3, 2018 AAIHS Editors black protest, Black women, carceral state, Jim Crow, voting

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Black Rights and Black Citizenship in Antebellum Baltimore

October 2, 2018October 3, 2018 Adam McNeil Activism, archives, Baltimore, freedom, race, racism

Throughout my life, I have grappled with the precarious and vulnerable nature of Black life in the United States and

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