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Mob Economics and Lynching Narratives

April 14, 2016April 11, 2016 Guest Poster Jim Crow, lynching, Mississippi, William Pickens

This is a guest post by Jason Morgan Ward, an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. His new

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Celia, #BlackLivesMatter, and the Diffusion of Black Thought

April 13, 2016April 13, 2016 Brandon Byrd #BlackLivesMatter, black protest, Black women, teaching

One of the hardest days in my early African American history class is the day that we analyze State of

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The Mysterious Thelma X and the Struggle of Black Domestic Workers

April 3, 2016April 3, 2016 Garrett Felber black nationalism, Black women, Nation of Islam

Several years ago, I was looking through the papers of sociologist C. Eric Lincoln at the Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Finding Agency in Unexpected Places

March 22, 2016March 20, 2016 Jared Hardesty black politics, freedom, primary source, slavery

Ezekiel Price was a notary public in Boston, Massachusetts whose career spanned from the 1750s until the 1780s. He dutifully

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Thoughts on Underground

March 18, 2016March 17, 2016 Noelle Trent

Warning this post contains spoilers I first heard about WGN America’s Underground back in October, shortly after I started working

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