Search Results for: civil rights movement

Reproductive Justice and Black Women’s Activism

August 5, 2022February 27, 2023 Tiana U. Wilson #ReproductiveRights, Activism, Black women, health, medicine

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In September 1986, former Third World Women’s

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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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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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Searching for Anna Douglass in the Archives

June 6, 2022June 5, 2022 Daina Ramey Berry #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackWomenBio, Black women, Gender

On a warm August afternoon in 1882, 3,000 family, friends, and acquaintances gathered to pay their respects to Mrs. Anna

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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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