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Online Roundtable–The Georgia of the North

January 14, 2025January 19, 2025 AAIHS Editors #GeorgiaOfTheNorth

January 21 to January 28, 2025 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is

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Cars for Freedom: SNCC and the Sojourner Motor Fleet

January 13, 2025January 8, 2025 Travis Wright Jim Crow, South, travel

On a late summer night in 1964, a small plane landed on a desolate airstrip outside Greenwood, Mississippi, carrying two

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Reflections of the 60th Anniversary of Urban Uprisings in America

October 17, 2024October 18, 2024 Heather Ann Thompson UrbanRebellions

This post is part of our forum on the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s On this momentous 60th anniversary of

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Online Forum-Urban Rebellions in the 1960s

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024 AAIHS Editors black protest, Resistance, UrbanRebellions

October 14-17, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum that

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A Black Woman’s Activism in Postwar (West) Germany

September 18, 2024September 18, 2024 Silke Hackenesch #BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, Adoption, Black Family, WWII

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.”  In the aftermath of the

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