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#CFP: Black Women and 19th Century America

March 24, 2023April 25, 2023 AAIHS Editors 19th Century, Black women, CFP, Charlotte Forten, Schools, Susie King Taylor

When discussing the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, numerous individuals and organizations tend to focus on the mid-twentieth century to highlight

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2023 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

March 8, 2023March 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSConference, AAIHS23, Book Award, conference, Pauli Murray, Pauli Murray Book Award Finalists

    The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the fifth annual Pauli

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HBCUs and the Red Scare

February 14, 2023February 13, 2023 Candace Cunningham Activism, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, South

In the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, racial tensions rose as African Americans began immediately submitting school desegregation

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Pittsburgh Reformers and the Black Freedom Struggle

February 9, 2023February 7, 2023 Ashley Everson #CanaanDim, #Roundtable, Great Migration, NAACP, Pittsburgh, Urban League

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Historian Adam Lee Cilli’s

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New Challenges, New Ideas, and Black Reformers of Pittsburgh

February 7, 2023February 4, 2023 Brandon James Render #AAIHSRoundtable, #CanaanDim, Activism, black intellectual history

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. In a recent Twitter

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