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Frederick Douglass and the United States Constitution

November 28, 2018December 3, 2018 Noelle Trent civil rights, Frederick Douglass Forum, Gender, race

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. The United States Constitution has a powerful and

The Black Convention Movement and Black Politics in Nineteenth-Century America

October 18, 2018November 1, 2018 Stephen Robinson black politics, civil rights, Politics, race

African American leaders throughout the nineteenth century recognized the significance of creating and sustaining national organizations that were built upon

“An Unseen Light”: On the History of Black Memphis

October 8, 2018October 17, 2018 Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Activism, black lives matter, Black Power, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Gender, Racial Violence, Resistance, Unseen Light

*This is the introduction to our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light Richard Wright had to leave Memphis.

On the Passing of Historian Sterling Stuckey, 1932-2018

August 31, 2018September 4, 2018 John Bracey, Jr. civil rights, slavery

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

Student Activism and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

August 15, 2018August 27, 2018 Jon Hale civil rights, criminal justice system, law, racism, segregation, South, student activism

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Jon Hale as