“An Unseen Light”: On the History of Black Memphis
*This is the introduction to our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light Richard Wright had to leave Memphis.
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On the Passing of Historian Sterling Stuckey, 1932-2018
I first met Sterling Stuckey in Chicago fifty-five years ago. In the Spring of 1963, Sterling and a group of high school teachers and
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Student Activism and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Jon Hale as
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Black Public History in Chicago
As part of the research for his book Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism From World War II
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Progressive Movements and the Importance of Failure
Mary Frances Berry’s History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times could not have arrived
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