Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line
While America’s urban areas witnessed a massive boom in the popularity of motion pictures and moviegoing in the early twentieth
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The Controversy of the Without Sanctuary Museum Exhibit
On May 22, 1917, the lynching of Ell Persons, a Black woodcutter, occurred in a carnival-type setting in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Documenting Black Appalachia
Migration has been a constant theme throughout my Black Perspectives series on African Americans and DOCUMERICA, a landmark 1970s photodocumentary
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Joyce Ladner and SNCC
On the occasion of the recent sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington, many of us celebrated and remembered those who
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Dr. King and a Moral Plan for Justice
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a pastor, civil rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, author, son, husband, and father. It took
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