Black Journalists and The Great Migration
Coined in 1897, the phrase “all the news that’s fit to print” is a motto of the newspaper industry designed
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Jim Crow
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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