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#SandyStillSpeaks: “Living Black History” and Resources on Sandra Bland

January 28, 2016January 29, 2016 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #sayhername, Sandra Bland

Previous AAIHS posts about Sandra Bland include an account of local civil rights groundwork in Waller County following Bland’s death,

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Black Funeral Directors and the Black Lives Matter Movement

January 24, 2016January 24, 2016 Guest Poster #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore, Mississippi

Today’s guest post comes from Edwin Jackson, a licensed funeral director and embalmer in Maryland and Oklahoma. Born and raised in

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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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Black Intellectual History Panels at #AHA16

January 5, 2016January 6, 2016 Chris Cameron

We here at AAIHS are getting excited for this week’s American Historical Association conference. On the program you will find

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When Slaves Go on Strike: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction 80 Years Later

December 28, 2015December 28, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, black politics, Politics, reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

Slaves freed themselves.  With this majestic assertion in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois all but cemented Black Reconstruction as one of

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