Search Results for: police

Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line

December 5, 2023November 30, 2023 Alyssa Lopez film, Jim Crow, police brutality, Resistance

While America’s urban areas witnessed a massive boom in the popularity of motion pictures and moviegoing in the early twentieth

Read more

The Controversy of the Without Sanctuary Museum Exhibit

December 4, 2023December 1, 2023 Menika Dirkson Jim Crow, lynching, museums

On May 22, 1917, the lynching of Ell Persons, a Black woodcutter, occurred in a carnival-type setting in Memphis, Tennessee.

Read more

Joyce Ladner and SNCC

November 29, 2023November 13, 2023 Marlee Bunch Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow

On the occasion of the recent sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington, many of us celebrated and remembered those who

Read more

A Womanist Dancing Mind in Wilderness Archives

November 16, 2023October 29, 2023 Jaimie D. Crumley #WomanistTheology, archives, black feminism, Womanism, Womanist Theology

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ To enter the archive as a historian who studies the

Read more

The Legal History of Travel Discrimination

November 2, 2023October 29, 2023 Rebecca Dudley book review, civil rights, Jim Crow, racism, Resistance

Many of us take for granted the ease of our particular American-style mobility. We can go wherever we want to,

Read more