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Elite Activism: Survival and Resistance in the Ivies

September 11, 2019September 16, 2019 Shirletta Kinchen #AAIHSRoundtable, #UpendingTheIvoryTower, Activism, black politics, Black Power, education, race, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Stefan M. Bradley’s Upending the Ivory

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The Ongoing Struggle of the Black Ivy League

September 9, 2019September 10, 2019 Alaina Morgan #AAIHSRoundtable, #UpendingTheIvoryTower, Activism, black intellectual history, Black Power, black protest, education, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Stefan M. Bradley’s Upending

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Radical Blackness and Mutual Comradeship at 409 Edgecombe

July 16, 2019July 7, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly Activism, Black Marxism, black politics, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Communism, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, New York, race

In the first half of the twentieth century, Sugar Hill was the premier Black neighborhood in New York City that

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Documenting Nannie Helen Burroughs: A New Book About a Pioneering Civil Rights Leader

July 12, 2019July 8, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, Black women, civil rights, race, Resistance

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

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Reflections on African American Intellectual History

June 13, 2019June 9, 2019 Pero G. Dagbovie #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, black women scholars, education, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ In the mid-1970s when the

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