The Struggle for Voting Rights and the Poor People’s Campaign
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated
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The Black Convention Movement and Black Politics in Nineteenth-Century America
African American leaders throughout the nineteenth century recognized the significance of creating and sustaining national organizations that were built upon
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State Surveillance of the Black Freedom Movement in Memphis
*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light On March 28, 1968, five thousand Memphians gathered
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African Americans and the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement
The cartoon appeared in the October 1949 issue of New Africa, the monthly anti-imperial bulletin of the New York-based Council
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Black Rights and Black Citizenship in Antebellum Baltimore
Throughout my life, I have grappled with the precarious and vulnerable nature of Black life in the United States and
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