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Policing Black Freedom

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Philip V. McHarris #contestedcitizenship, Activism, police violence, Resistance, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Introduction to “Contested Citizenship” Roundtable

August 2, 2021August 3, 2021 Lisa A. Monroe #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, black lives matter, education

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Myles Horton, Highlander, and the Beloved Community

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 Robert Hunt Ferguson Activism, Civil Rights Movement, education, Jim Crow, Resistance, teaching

On the night of March 29, 2019, an administrative building at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,

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Blackness, Norwegian Identity, and Nationality

July 23, 2021July 22, 2021 Matthew Teutsch black internationalism, black lives matter, music

  Speaking about his research, 2019 Holberg Laureate Paul Gilroy told the committee, “I am particularly engaged by the fate of people

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Racial Fascism in the Postwar United States

July 22, 2021July 21, 2021 Denise Lynn Activism, Black radicalism, Black women, Jim Crow, police violence

  The Communist Party (CPUSA) was a leader in the antifascist left in the 1930s. The Party had a broad

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