Search Results for: civil rights

Prisoners’ Rights, Resistance, and the Law

January 13, 2021January 10, 2021 Cheryl D. Hicks #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, mass incarceration, prisons

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. Robert Chase’s compelling book, We

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Women’s Experiences during the American Civil War

January 8, 2021January 3, 2021 Robert Colby Black women, book review, Civil War, Gender, slavery

In the winter of 1863 and 1864, with the Civil War entering its third year, two women living in Southeastern

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To Fulfill These Rights: A New Book About the Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions

October 18, 2019October 17, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, affirmative action, black protest, Resistance, student activism

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Why the United States Needs More Museums about Slavery and Abolition, Not Another About the Civil War

July 11, 2019July 1, 2019 Marlene L. Daut African Diaspora, archives, Civil War, education, Frederick Douglass, museums, Post-Civil War, Public History, race, slavery

When I first stepped into the foyer of the brand new American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, Virginia, I

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Local Politics and Black Freedom After the Civil War

July 10, 2019June 30, 2019 Karen Cook Bell Activism, black politics, economic justice, landownership, Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance, South, voting

On June 4, 1870 Joshua C. Legree opened an account with the Savannah, Georgia branch of the Freedmen’s Bank. Three

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