Search Results for: meaning of freedom

The Dichotomy of Enslaved Women’s Work in the Antebellum South

March 20, 2024March 12, 2024 O.G. McClinton, III #BooksArchivesMonuments, Black History

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” The work of enslaved

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Black Mothers and the Birth Control Movement

January 26, 2024January 20, 2024 Destiny Crockett Black women, Gender, Resistance

This article was originally published on October 30, 2015. Although I stand with Planned Parenthood through the contentious recent discussions

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The Best Black History Books of 2023

December 11, 2023December 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors aaihs

We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2023 on Black History, and they

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Dr. King and a Moral Plan for Justice

November 28, 2023November 14, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook Activism, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, Resistance

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a pastor, civil rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, author, son, husband, and father. It took

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Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State

November 21, 2023December 1, 2023 Frances O'Shaughnessy Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance

In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through

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