The Life and Work of Mary Church Terrell
As many across the U.S. were gearing up last year to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the nineteenth amendment and
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Jim Crow
The Interior Lives of Black Youth
In Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life, Paula C. Austin, Assistant Professor of History
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We Are Not Slaves — An Author’s Response
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. On Friday, January 15, at 12noon
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‘On the Books’: Machine Learning Jim Crow
In 1950, the scholar-activist Pauli Murray published an important book titled States’ Laws on Race and Color. Sponsored by the Women’s
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The History of Black College Football
Reflecting on his time as a member of the Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University) football team, journalist Eric “Ric”
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