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Torpedoing Black Radicalism: The Case of Hugh Mulzac

October 28, 2021October 26, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky Alphaeus Hunton, Anti-Communism, Black Veterans, Communism, Hugh Mulzac, Labor Movement, Marian Anderson, McCarthyism, Socialism, WWII

  It was late October 1942. The crew of the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington had just “lashed down the last crate

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Black Identity and the Power of Self-Naming

September 10, 2021September 8, 2021 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black lives matter, education, Resistance

Black identity is the most political social identity used to identify people of African descent in the United States. The

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Alphaeus Hunton: The Fight for Equality and Liberation during WWII

September 9, 2021September 8, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky African Diaspora, black politics, Black radicalism

It has been argued that the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) neglected the struggle for African American equality during World War

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#AAIHS2022: Call for Papers–A Virtual Conference

August 23, 2021October 1, 2021 AAIHS Editors

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s Seventh Annual Conference Everyday Practices, Memory Making, and Local Spaces March 11-12, 2022 

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The Black Athlete and the Vote

August 9, 2021August 8, 2021 Louis Moore #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, black politics, black protest

In 1946, Joe Louis, the heavyweight champion of the world, stood in front of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare

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