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Civil Rights Playwrights as Black Intellectuals

November 25, 2017November 28, 2017 Julie Burrell civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Harold Cruse, theater

In the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, contributors reaffirmed the significance of

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Radical Intellect: A New Book on Liberator Magazine

November 22, 2017November 25, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black, Black Arts Movement, Black Power

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

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African Americans’ Civil Cases in the Jim Crow South

November 17, 2017November 20, 2017 Melissa Milewski economic justice, Jim Crow, law, race, South

In 1910, 48-year-old Rebecca Sallee fell into an open hole on a city street in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, as she made

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The Wall of Respect: A New Book on Public Art and Black Liberation

September 15, 2017September 16, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi art, Black Power, black protest, Chicago

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

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Echoes of the 1960s: SNCC and White Liberal Participation in Anti-Racist Movements

September 12, 2017September 14, 2017 Ashley Farmer Activism, black politics, Black Power, black radical tradition, Civil Rights Movement

This first summer under the Trump regime resembles the long red-hot summers of the past. It has been filled with

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