Search Results for: civil rights era

Online Roundtable–Anne Gray Fischer’s ‘The Streets Belong To Us’

August 9, 2022August 10, 2022 AAIHS Editors #StreetsBelongToUs, carceral state, policing

August 15-22, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Urban

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Recovering the History of Black Showgirls in Las Vegas

May 9, 2022May 8, 2022 Su Kim Chung Anna Bailey, Entertainers, Las Vegas, Moulin Rouge, Showgirls

Las Vegas has a long and glamorous entertainment history that evokes images of tuxedo clad crooners, female singers in elegant

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Radical Histories After the 1960s: A CBFS Interview

April 13, 2022April 12, 2022 Erik Wallenberg CBFS, CBFS Interview, civil rights, Conservatism, environmental justice, mass incarceration, Ronal Reagan

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

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Black Mayors, Black Politics, and the Gary Convention

March 22, 2022March 21, 2022 Brandon Stokes #GaryConvention50, Activism, black politics, Black Power

The National Black Political Convention of 1972 saw many national giants on the Black political scene with Amiri Baraka and

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Until I Am Free: Teaching Fannie Lou Hamer Past and Present

February 3, 2022February 2, 2022 Nicole M. Gipson black politics, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, SNCC

  What we don’t know about the real life of the civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer could fill a

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