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Announcing the 2024 AAIHS Award Winners

March 8, 2024March 4, 2024 AAIHS Editors #AAIHS2024

We are pleased to announce the 2024 AAIHS award winners–winners of the Pauli Murray Book Prize, the Maria Stewart Journal

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CFP: Urban Rebellions in the 1960s

February 8, 2024February 2, 2024 AAIHS Editors CFP, Civil Rights Movement, UrbanRebellions

During the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, activists used marches, boycotts, sit-ins, picketing and other forms of peaceful protest to achieve

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The Early Activism of Angela Davis

February 7, 2024February 7, 2024 Joshua L. Crutchfield Activism, Black women, carceral state, police brutality

On October 13, 1970, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Angela Davis in New York facing indictments for kidnapping,

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Rosa Parks, Radicalism, and Remembrance

February 1, 2024January 27, 2024 Ashley Farmer Activism, black feminism, Black radicalism, civil rights, Rosa Parks

This article was originally published on February 17, 2015 It’s Black History Month, which means that mainstream society pulls out

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“Before Brown”: A CBFS Interview

January 19, 2024January 18, 2024 Lucien Baskin black queer studies, CBFS, interview, military, WWII

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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