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Birmingham in Five Acts

January 14, 2016January 14, 2016 Brandon Byrd Civil Rights Movement, convict leasing, mass incarceration, South

Beginnings John T. Milner had big goals for a new railroad connecting north and south Alabama. The man just named

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Reflections on 2015

December 12, 2015December 12, 2015 Noelle Trent

Here at AAIHS, my 2015 blog postings began with a reflection on remarks made by Chief Supreme Court Justice Roger

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Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the 1920s: An Interview with Shannon King

December 10, 2015December 9, 2015 Keisha N. Blain black politics, Harlem, Politics

This month, I interviewed Shannon King about his new book, Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism

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When Cops Kill the Terrorists Win

October 28, 2015October 28, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, black internationalism, Black Panthers, black politics, black protest, capitalism, Chicago, Ferguson, imperialism, W.E.B. Du Bois

  On June 15, 1969 the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, famously declared that the

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Go for Broke: #WallerCountySyllabus

September 18, 2015September 18, 2015 Phillip Luke Sinitiere

As a result of events in Ferguson related to the death of Michael Brown, last summer Georgetown University history professor

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