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Racial Fascism in the Postwar United States

July 22, 2021July 21, 2021 Denise Lynn 0 Comments
Activism, Black radicalism, Black women, Jim Crow, police violence

The Communist Party (CPUSA) was a leader in the antifascist left in the 1930s. The Party had a broad

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The Life and Work of Mary Church Terrell

March 25, 2021April 18, 2021 Malaurie Pilatte Activism, black feminism, Black women, Jim Crow, Resistance

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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The Interior Lives of Black Youth

January 29, 2021January 30, 2021 Joshua L. Crutchfield Activism, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, Jim Crow, Resistance

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

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Robert T. Chase #AAIHSRoundtable, #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, Gender, Jim Crow, oral history, prisons, race, racism, sexual violence, sexuality, slavery, violence, white supremacy

*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

September 11, 2020September 17, 2020 William Sturkey digital media, 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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