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Aaron Alpeoria Bradley and Black Power during Reconstruction

June 21, 2017June 24, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt Black Power, Politics, reconstruction

American historians have long traced the genesis of the Black Power movement to 1966. I would argue, however, that one

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Online Roundtable: Robyn Spencer’s The Revolution Has Come

June 12, 2017July 8, 2017 AAIHS Editors #RevolutionHasCome, Black Panther Party, Black Power

July 10-15, 2017 Black Perspectives is collaborating with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights (JCHR) to host a roundtable on Robyn

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Coretta Scott King, The Archive, and Black Feminist Methods

May 11, 2017May 16, 2017 David Stein archives, black feminism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr.

For someone so prominent, learning about Coretta Scott King’s life and labors apart from those of her late husband is

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Women Picturing Revolution: An Interview with Lesly Deschler-Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago

April 21, 2017April 24, 2017 L. Jonathan Collier Black women, Public History, racism

This month I interviewed Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago about their event Women Picturing Revolution: Focus on Africa and

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A Dual Emancipation: How Black Freedom Benefited Poor Whites

April 15, 2017April 18, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt freedom, reconstruction, violence

Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead

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