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Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line

December 5, 2023November 30, 2023 Alyssa Lopez film, Jim Crow, police brutality, Resistance

While America’s urban areas witnessed a massive boom in the popularity of motion pictures and moviegoing in the early twentieth

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The Controversy of the Without Sanctuary Museum Exhibit

December 4, 2023December 1, 2023 Menika Dirkson Jim Crow, lynching, museums

On May 22, 1917, the lynching of Ell Persons, a Black woodcutter, occurred in a carnival-type setting in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Documenting Black Appalachia

November 30, 2023November 22, 2023 E. James West Black Appalachia, Coal, DOCUMERICA, Great Migration, West Virginia

Migration has been a constant theme throughout my Black Perspectives series on African Americans and DOCUMERICA, a landmark 1970s photodocumentary

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Dr. King and a Moral Plan for Justice

November 28, 2023November 14, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook Activism, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, Resistance

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a pastor, civil rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, author, son, husband, and father. It took

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Womanist Theology and A Black Woman’s Intellectual Movement

November 17, 2023November 7, 2023 A’Dorian Murray-Thomas black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, Resistance

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ My grandmother stood neither silent nor conspicuous in her daily

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