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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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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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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Remembering Reverend Annie Rebecca Woodbey
The leading Black member of the Socialist Party of America (SPA) in the first decade of the twentieth century, Rev.
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Black Los Angeles Contributes to the Freedom Rides
In the summer of 1961, Black people from Los Angeles and their allies volunteered to travel south and take part
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