Black Chicagoans, The Great Migration, and Nature
In Landscapes of Hope, author Brian McCammack brings together topics such as recreation, celebration, resistance, class conflict, protest, and activism.
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The Culture and Intellectual Climate of the Great Migration
A Movement in Every Direction: A Great Migration Critical Reader is a helpful collection of primary and secondary sources related
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James Farmer and the Roots of a Black Activist-Intellectual
James Farmer conceptualized and developed a nonviolent direct-action philosophy that could be applied in the United States. He drew inspiration from
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Betting on Black: Gambling and Gaming in the ‘Mississippi of the West’
In the famous 1954 Ebony article “Negroes can’t win in Las Vegas,” James Goodrich dubbed Sin City
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Black Internationalism, Black Studies, and the Challenge to Hemispheric Jim Crow
This article first appeared in Made By History. The original can be accessed here. Across the country, state legislatures and school boards
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