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Blog Announcements: Meet the Editing Team!

July 21, 2022August 4, 2022 AAIHS Editors aaihs

The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to begin the next academic year! Thank you for supporting us over

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James Farmer and the Roots of a Black Activist-Intellectual

June 23, 2022August 4, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. biography, Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, James Farmer, Jim Crow

James Farmer conceptualized and developed a nonviolent direct-action philosophy that could be applied in the United States. He drew inspiration from

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Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR

June 15, 2022June 14, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky abolition, Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, Communism, CPUSA, JoAnne Little, National Defense Organization Against Racist And Political Repression, Prison Abolition

In June 1972, an all-white jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges in her alleged role in an August 1970 Marin County, California

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Resurrecting Shirley Chisholm from Symbol to Life

June 1, 2022May 31, 2022 Anastasia Curwood Congressional Black Cacus, Jesse Jackson, Politics, Shirley Chisholm, Sojourner Truth

Fifteen years ago, I decided to write a biography of a Black woman. My scholarly genealogy pushed me toward such

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Behind and Beyond Biography: Writing Black Women’s Lives and Thoughts

May 31, 2022May 30, 2022 Ashley D. Farmer and Tanisha Ford #BlackWomenBio, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender

“I think of invention as a gift to the reader,” writer and professor Bridgett Davis said. The moment you put

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