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Black Women March on Washington: The Sojourners for Truth and Justice and Black Women’s Lives Matter

April 17, 2015April 20, 2015 Ashley Farmer

Before the 1963 March on Washington a group of African American women stormed the gates of the capital demanding that

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Fighting for Freedom: Free Women of African Descent in New Orleans and Beyond

April 12, 2015April 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson black protest, black rebellion, Civil War, freedom, reconstruction, slavery

Delivered at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival on Saturday, March 28, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the panel

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Review of Daniel Matlin, On the Corner

April 5, 2015 Chris Cameron

Today’s guest post was written by Hettie Williams, a lecturer of African American history in the Department of History and

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Easter 1942, A Reflection on the Double Victory Campaign

April 4, 2015April 5, 2015 Noelle Trent

Since this is the Easter holiday weekend, I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on another Easter 73 years

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“Black People and the Victorian Ethos:” Respectability Politics, Black Organizing, and Black Power

March 17, 2015March 17, 2015 Ashley Farmer

When someone is engaging in respectability politics, he or she is adopts the manners and morality of the dominant or

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