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Pauli Murray, the Brown Decision, and the Struggle for Equal Rights

In today’s post, Ashley Everson, assistant professor of African American and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and a

In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the

The Supreme Court’s infamous 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson – issued several decades after white actor Thomas Dartmouth

Naturally, we don’t know her full name. That we know her at all is only because of a gun aimed

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. We Are Not Slaves: