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Robert Smalls and Reconstruction Politics

September 6, 2023August 22, 2023 Karen Cook Bell Civil War, education, Leadership, Politics, reconstruction, Robert Smalls

Reconstruction politics shares a political lineage with the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Both periods sought to fulfill the nation’s mandate

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Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners

August 30, 2023August 4, 2023 Taylor Prescott book review, Jim Crow, violence

Margaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence

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W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War: An Interview with Chad L. Williams

August 29, 2023August 20, 2023 Brandon James Render W.E.B. Du Bois

This is an interview with Black Perspectives blogger Brandon James Render, an Assistant Professor in the History Department at the

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AAIHS Denounces White Supremacist Violence in Florida

August 29, 2023August 28, 2023 AAIHS Editors violence, white supremacy

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) condemns the recent white supremacist massacre perpetrated against Black Americans in Jacksonville, Florida.

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Unsilencing the Haitian Revolution in US Hip Hop

August 22, 2023August 14, 2023 Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall #HipHop50, #HipHopSeries, hip hop

This post is part of our forum on “Hip Hop at 50.”  Haiti got a special place in our history,

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