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Civil Rights Activism in the “Jim Crow North”

August 20, 2020August 27, 2020 Matthew F. Delmont New York, segregation

Where did Jim Crow segregation and civil rights activism take place? A great deal hinges on how this question gets

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Black Radical Abner Berry and the Limitations of Liberal Alliances

July 30, 2020July 29, 2020 Denise Lynn archives, black politics, Black radicalism, capitalism

In the midst of the historical moment that has been the long 2020, we are witnessing several convergences which some

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Contesting the Stage

July 16, 2020July 12, 2020 David Krasner #AAIHSRoundtable, #RadicalBlackTheatre, archives, Black radicalism, race

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Kate Dossett’s Radical

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Black Archives Take Center Stage

July 13, 2020July 12, 2020 Say Burgin #AAIHSRoundtable, #RadicalBlackTheatre, archives, Black radicalism, Black women, methods, Performance, Resistance, theater

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Kate Dossett’s Radical Black Theatre in The

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An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History

June 19, 2020June 17, 2020 Yannick Marshall black intellectual history, marronage, race, Racial Violence, racism, Resistance, violence, white supremacy

Within the larger narrative of slave resistance, maroons offered a unique experiment. They created and exposed to whites and blacks

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