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Announcing the 2024 AAIHS Award Winners

March 8, 2024March 4, 2024 AAIHS Editors #AAIHS2024

We are pleased to announce the 2024 AAIHS award winners–winners of the Pauli Murray Book Prize, the Maria Stewart Journal

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2024 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

February 26, 2024February 25, 2024 AAIHS Editors #BookPrize

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the seventh annual Pauli Murray Book

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CFP: Black Women’s Activism in the Diaspora

February 15, 2024February 6, 2024 AAIHS Editors Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Black women

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts for an online forum

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Philadelphia’s ‘Black Shining Prince’

February 13, 2024February 9, 2024 Menika Dirkson Activism, education, Philadelphia

Securely tucked away in the Print Department of The Library Company of Philadelphia’s collection of over 100,000 photographs, maps, drawings,

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CFP: Urban Rebellions in the 1960s

February 8, 2024February 2, 2024 AAIHS Editors CFP, Civil Rights Movement, UrbanRebellions

During the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, activists used marches, boycotts, sit-ins, picketing and other forms of peaceful protest to achieve

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