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Black Women Activists North of the Mason Dixon Line

January 24, 2025January 19, 2025 Marvin Walker #GeorgiaOfTheNorth, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. Over the past fifty

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The Great Migration and Black Women’s Political Work

January 21, 2025January 19, 2025 Katie Singer #GeorgiaOfTheNorth, Black women, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. There will never be

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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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