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Toward the Preservation of Black Joy in Public Memory

October 18, 2022October 13, 2022 Jessy Ohl, Shalonda Capers, and Caran Kennedy Racial Violence, Resistance

Representations of Black experiences remain frustratingly narrow in public commemoration efforts across the U.S. For many decades, and especially in

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Fannie Lou Hamer’s Message to Contemporary America

October 7, 2022October 7, 2022 Keisha N. Blain #UntilIAmFree, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, SNCC

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s

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Fannie Lou Hamer and American Democracy

October 5, 2022September 29, 2022 Peniel E. Joseph #UntilIAmFree, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, Fannie Lou Hamer

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. Fannie Lou Hamer, the sharecropper

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Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Dreams

October 4, 2022October 3, 2022 Danielle L. McGuire #AAIHSRoundtable, #UntilIAmFree, Black women, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. When Andrew Young, the US

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Online Forum–Black Women and Brown v. Board of Education

September 30, 2022October 3, 2022 AAIHS Editors #BlackWomenBOE, Brown v. Board, Civil Rights Movement, desegregation, education

October 10, 2022 to October 14, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting an

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