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Fannie Lou Hamer’s Message to Contemporary America

October 7, 2022October 7, 2022 Keisha N. Blain #UntilIAmFree, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, SNCC

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s

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The Local Politics of Fannie Lou Hamer

October 6, 2022October 4, 2022 Stefan Bradley #UntilIAmFree, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, SNCC

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. By age 44, most people

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Fannie Lou Hamer and American Democracy

October 5, 2022September 29, 2022 Peniel E. Joseph #UntilIAmFree, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, Fannie Lou Hamer

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. Fannie Lou Hamer, the sharecropper

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The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy

August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Racial Violence, Resistance, slavery

The Denmark Vesey conspiracy transformed how enslavers viewed free and unfree men who labored in the cities and countryside of

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Call for Submissions: The Significance of the Black Family in the US

August 10, 2022August 10, 2022 AAIHS Editors Marriage

“For generations the [Black] family has remained an important cauldron of resistance, forging and preserving a vital legacy of collective

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