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Toward the Preservation of Black Joy in Public Memory

October 18, 2022October 13, 2022 Jessy Ohl, Shalonda Capers, and Caran Kennedy Racial Violence, Resistance

Representations of Black experiences remain frustratingly narrow in public commemoration efforts across the U.S. For many decades, and especially in

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The Legal Mind of Constance Baker Motley

October 14, 2022October 12, 2022 Tomiko Brown-Nagin #aaihsroundtables, #BlackWomenBOE, Brown v. Board, Civil Rights Movement, Constance Baker Motley, desegregation, education, Thurgood Marshall

This post is part of our forum on Black Women and the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The following is

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How Pauli Murray Masterminded Brown v. Board

October 13, 2022October 12, 2022 Tejai Beulah Howard #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackWomenBOE, black intellectual history, Brown v. Board, education, Pauli Murray

This post is part of our forum on Black Women and the Brown v. Board of Education decision According to

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Marion Thompson Wright and Brown v. Board of Education

October 11, 2022October 5, 2022 Graham Hodges #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackWomenBOE, black intellectual history, education

This post is part of our forum on Black Women and the Brown v. Board of Education decision Marion Thompson

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Black Women at Columbia University before Brown v. Board

October 10, 2022October 26, 2022 Hettie Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackWomenBOE, black intellectual history

This post is part of our forum on Black Women and the Brown v. Board of Education decision ***A later

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