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Alphaeus Hunton: The Fight for Equality and Liberation during WWII

September 9, 2021September 8, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky African Diaspora, black politics, Black radicalism

It has been argued that the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) neglected the struggle for African American equality during World War

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Black Women and Civil War Pensions

September 1, 2021August 28, 2021 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Black women, Gender, Resistance

By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a

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Blog Announcements: New Members of the Editing Team!

August 16, 2021August 16, 2021 AAIHS Editors

The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to begin the next academic year! Thank you for supporting us over these

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Remembering, Rethinking, and Renaming the Watts Rebellion

August 13, 2021August 11, 2021 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black protest, Resistance

Stop referring to what happened in Los Angeles from August 11- 16, 1965 as the Watts Riot. Call the events

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On the Making and Timely Re-Release of Reluctant Reformers

August 11, 2021August 9, 2021 Say Burgin Activism, black intellectual history, Black Power, usable past

In 1974, Howard University Press published a powerful book documenting how racist ideas and practices incapacitated the US’s most historically

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