Search Results for: civil rights movement

Migrants, Reformers, and Pittsburgh’s Labor Movement

February 8, 2023February 7, 2023 Julia W. Bernier #CanaanDim, #Roundtable, labor, NAACP, Pittsburgh, Urban League

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. On January 19, 1841,

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New England’s Unsung Black Liberation Movement

December 8, 2022December 6, 2022 Dylan O’Hara Activism, Boston, education, Massachusetts, New England, School Activism

Zebulon Miletsky’s impressive book project, Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle, weaves together 350 years of

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Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez and the African American Community of New Orleans during the Civil War

October 19, 2022October 13, 2022 Anthony J. Cade II abolition, Civil War, Louis Charles Roundanez, Newspapers, slavery

Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez lived an extraordinary life. He traveled the world, earned two medical degrees, started two newspapers, and was an activist during

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Remembering Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Rhonda Y. Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #UntilIAmFree, Activism, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Gender

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. Prelude I teach a course

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Online Forum–Black Women and Reproductive Rights

July 25, 2022July 25, 2022 AAIHS Editors Black women, reproductive justice

August 1, 2022 to August 8, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting

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