Search Results for: civil rights movement

‘On the Books’: Machine Learning Jim Crow

September 11, 2020September 17, 2020 William Sturkey digital media, Jim Crow

In 1950, the scholar-activist Pauli Murray published an important book titled States’ Laws on Race and Color. Sponsored by the Women’s

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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History

September 3, 2020August 28, 2020 Edward Carson African Diaspora, black radical tradition, Black radicalism

In 2018, scholars celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois via published essays, symposiums, and commemorative

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The History of Black College Football

September 2, 2020September 5, 2020 Joshua Crutchfield Jim Crow, race, Resistance

Reflecting on his time as a member of the Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University) football team, journalist Eric “Ric”

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The Legacy of Freedom Summer

August 21, 2020August 20, 2020 Kristal Clemons & Jon Hale teaching

This summer marks the 25th year of the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools program.  The program faces tremendous challenges by a

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The Black Freedom Struggle of the North

August 20, 2020August 17, 2020 Joshua Clark Davis segregation

Historians have produced a remarkable body of literature reappraising the civil rights movement in the last two decades. And still,

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