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Searching for Anna Douglass in the Archives

On a warm August afternoon in 1882, 3,000 family, friends, and acquaintances gathered to pay their respects to Mrs. Anna

“I think of invention as a gift to the reader,” writer and professor Bridgett Davis said. The moment you put

May 31, 2022 to June 7, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting

By the mid-twentieth century, Las Vegas’ reputation as the “Mississippi of the West” was well-earned. As Black Americans from the

This article first appeared in Made By History. The original can be accessed here. A hundred different organized groups have urged the