Black Mayors and the Battle Over Urban Leadership
In 1967, Richard Hatcher of Gary, Indiana, and Carl Stokes of Cleveland made history as two of the first Black
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The Grassroots Organizing of Black Women in the North before 1954
This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. Dr. Hettie V. Williams’s
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Online Forum-Urban Rebellions in the 1960s
October 14-17, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum that
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“Before Brown”: A CBFS Interview
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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The Legal History of Travel Discrimination
Many of us take for granted the ease of our particular American-style mobility. We can go wherever we want to,
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