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Call for Submissions: The Gary National Political Convention of 1972

February 4, 2022February 3, 2022 Robert Greene II Amiri Baraka, Black National Convention, Black Politicians, black politics, Gary

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts centering on the Gary

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Until I Am Free: Teaching Fannie Lou Hamer Past and Present

February 3, 2022February 2, 2022 Nicole M. Gipson black politics, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, SNCC

  What we don’t know about the real life of the civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer could fill a

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A Review of 2021 Books in Black Intellectual History

February 1, 2022January 31, 2022 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, Resistance

The following list is a sampling of books on African American history that were released during 2021. All of them

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The International MLK

January 17, 2022January 16, 2022 Robert Greene II Civil Rights Movement, Internationalism, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK Day, Vietnam War

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1959 Morehouse Commencement Address offered the young pastor an opportunity to tell the graduates of his

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(Re)locating Sites of Memory in Appalachia Through Black Spaces and Stories

December 10, 2021December 9, 2021 Kristan McCullum Appalachia, Black Appalachia, desegregation, Kentucky, Memory

“You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the

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