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CFP: Urban Rebellions in the 1960s

February 8, 2024February 2, 2024 AAIHS Editors CFP, Civil Rights Movement, UrbanRebellions

During the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, activists used marches, boycotts, sit-ins, picketing and other forms of peaceful protest to achieve

The Early Activism of Angela Davis

February 7, 2024February 7, 2024 Joshua L. Crutchfield Activism, Black women, carceral state, police brutality

On October 13, 1970, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Angela Davis in New York facing indictments for kidnapping,

Conference 2024 – General Information

#AAIHS2024 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s Ninth Annual Conference March 8-9, 2024 Conference Theme: Reparations: Past, Present, and

What is “Freedom” in the Black Freedom Struggle?

January 11, 2024January 5, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Activism, black protest, black radical tradition

Freedom is at the center of the Black freedom struggle. The Strange Career of Jim Crow, The Strange Careers of the Jim

Dr. Joanne Martin’s Great Blacks in Wax Museum

October 23, 2023October 22, 2023 Menika Dirkson Black women, curation, education, material culture, museums

Across America, The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum is known for highlighting unvarnished accounts of African American History from