Robert Smalls and Reconstruction Politics
Reconstruction politics shares a political lineage with the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Both periods sought to fulfill the nation’s mandate
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Black Student Activism and the Origins of the Stanford Canon Debate
In the late 1980s, the Stanford University Black Student Union stood at the center of a controversy involving the school’s
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The African American History Survey as an Intellectual Product
Countless Alabama school children take part in an annual fourth-grade field trip that includes tours of the Alabama State Capitol
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New England’s Unsung Black Liberation Movement
Zebulon Miletsky’s impressive book project, Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle, weaves together 350 years of
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Albertha Johnston Murray: The Life of a Local Public Intellectual
Some of America’s most celebrated Black intellectuals—Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Ida B. Wells, Carter G. Woodson,
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