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Blog Announcements: Meet the Editing Team!

July 21, 2022August 4, 2022 AAIHS Editors aaihs

The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to begin the next academic year! Thank you for supporting us over

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Call for Submissions: Black Women and Reproductive Rights

July 8, 2022August 4, 2022 AAIHS Editors Black women, reproductive justice

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts for an online forum

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James Farmer and the Roots of a Black Activist-Intellectual

June 23, 2022August 4, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. biography, Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, James Farmer, Jim Crow

James Farmer conceptualized and developed a nonviolent direct-action philosophy that could be applied in the United States. He drew inspiration from

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The Bud Billiken Parade

June 16, 2022June 15, 2022 E. James West Bud Billiken Parade, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, DOCUMERICA, Parade

Over the last two installments of my series on race and DOCUMERICA, we’ve explored the contrasting visions of Black Chicago

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Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR

June 15, 2022June 14, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky abolition, Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, Communism, CPUSA, JoAnne Little, National Defense Organization Against Racist And Political Repression, Prison Abolition

In June 1972, an all-white jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges in her alleged role in an August 1970 Marin County, California

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