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Septima Clark and the Fight for Civil Rights

October 26, 2023October 17, 2023 Tara Kirton Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, education

There are many names synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement, but there are countless lesser-known individuals who played a critical

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CORE and the Early Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Activism, Civil Rights Movement

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded in the spring of 1942 in Chicago by James Farmer along with a racially diverse group

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Online Forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement

April 10, 2023April 9, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #HowardThurman, black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement

April 11–18, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on

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CFP: Howard Thurman’s Spiritual and Intellectual Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement

January 27, 2023January 23, 2023 AAIHS Editors CFP, Civil Rights Movement, Howard Thurman, Mysticism, Online Forum, religion

Gregory Ellison’s recently published edited volume on Howard Thurman explores the varied roles that the theologian, mystic, professor, and preacher

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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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