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Cars for Freedom: SNCC and the Sojourner Motor Fleet

January 13, 2025January 8, 2025 Travis Wright Jim Crow, South, travel

On a late summer night in 1964, a small plane landed on a desolate airstrip outside Greenwood, Mississippi, carrying two

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Call for Papers: 90 Years Since Black Reconstruction in America

November 18, 2024November 18, 2024 AAIHS Editors

Call for Papers: 90 Years since Black Reconstruction in America  Deadline: July 1, 2025 Few works in American history are

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Malcolm X, MLK, and the Call for a Cultural Revolution

November 15, 2024November 14, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black politics, Black radicalism, Civil Rights Movement

Both Minister Malcolm X and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. are oftentimes referred to as civil rights activists. Peniel E.

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Revisiting Salaria Kea’s Story

October 23, 2024October 21, 2024 Gina Benavidez black feminism, black internationalism, Transnational Feminism

During the interwar period, Salaria Kea became one of the most famous Black American antifascist women of the early 20th

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Reflections of the 60th Anniversary of Urban Uprisings in America

October 17, 2024October 18, 2024 Heather Ann Thompson UrbanRebellions

This post is part of our forum on the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s On this momentous 60th anniversary of

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