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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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Local Politics and Black Freedom After the Civil War

July 10, 2019June 30, 2019 Karen Cook Bell Activism, black politics, economic justice, landownership, Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance, South, voting

On June 4, 1870 Joshua C. Legree opened an account with the Savannah, Georgia branch of the Freedmen’s Bank. Three

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The Lemonade Reader: A New Book on Beyoncé’s Visual Album

July 1, 2019June 21, 2019 J. T. Roane black feminism, Black women, Gender, Performance, religion, 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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Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World

June 27, 2019June 26, 2019 Adriana Chira Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, Haiti, nation, race, slavery

George Hackett’s trajectory simmered with the tensions that defined the Age of Emancipations. Hackett was born at the turn of

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Memory, Memorials, and History

June 25, 2019June 24, 2019 Alisha J. Hines archives, Civil War, Historical Memory, museums, race, slavery, South, white supremacy

“On this Juneteenth I’m on a tour being conducted by Jefferson Davis’s great grandson.” –@heirofElijah, June 19, 2019 The morning started

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