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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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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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Beyond the ‘Great Men’ Canon of Black Intellectual History

June 11, 2019June 9, 2019 La TaSha Levy #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black political thought, black politics, Black women, education, Politics, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ African American intellectual history is

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‘Dockworker Power’: Transnational Struggles for Justice

May 16, 2019May 6, 2019 Ralph Callebert Activism, black internationalism, black protest, labor, race, Racial Capitalism, Resistance, South Africa

Dockworkers are a favorite subject for many labor historians—including myself. Historically, they have proven themselves reliably radical and strike-prone, and

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The National Character of Black Oppression

March 6, 2019March 9, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly black nationalism, black politics, capitalism, Politics, race, racism

For the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, a small cadre of activist intellectuals sought to understand African American exploitation

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