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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Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State
In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through
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