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Sex, Swimming, and Chicago’s Racial Divide

Sunday, July 27, 1919, was a hot, sweltering, sunny day at Chicago’s Twenty-Ninth Street Beach. When fourteen-year-old Eugene Williams, who

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

During the mid-twentieth century, the economic growth following World War II marked an incredible period of production and consumption in

Julia Leakes yearned to be reunited with her family. In 1853, her two sisters showed up for sale along with

In 1986, African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks wrote of her life-long friend Langston Hughes: “‘WHAT was Langston Hughes? An overwhelmer.