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Behind and Beyond Biography: Writing Black Women’s Lives and Thoughts

Ashley D. Farmer and Tanisha C. Ford explain the importance of biographical writing of African American women and the personal connection involved.

by Ashley D. Farmer, Tanisha C. Ford via Black Perspectives on May 31, 2022
Fighting School Segregation Didn't Take Place Just in the South

In the 1950s, Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as 'just as Jim Crow' as the one she had attended in the South.

by Ashley D. Farmer via The Conversation on February 10, 2021
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The Black Woman Who Launched The Modern Fight For Reparations

Her grass-roots efforts shaped the conversation and presented a path forward.

by Ashley D. Farmer via Made By History on June 24, 2019
The Long History of Black Women's Exclusion in Historic Marches in Washington

Despite their large role in civil rights activism, black women have frequently been excluded from prominent positions in protests.

by Ashley D. Farmer via Black Perspectives on October 4, 2017
SNCC and White Liberal Participation in Anti-Racist Movements

In 1966, Atlanta Project members wrote a paper on the future of white liberals in the civil rights movement.

by Ashley D. Farmer via Black Perspectives on September 12, 2017

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Daisy Bates speaking at the March on Washington.

How Might the Civil Rights Movement Looked Different With Women at the Forefront?

Why women civil rights organizers marginalized at this event, and how that affects our collective memory of the struggle.

via Here & Now on August 23, 2023

Illustration of a stick figure on a ladder adding to very tall stacks of paper

Living Memory

Black archivists, activists, and artists are fighting for justice and ethical remembrance — and reimagining the archive itself.

by Megan Pillow via Guernica on June 23, 2021

Black women gathered in discussion for an episode of "Black Journal."

“The Black Woman”

Black women activism within documentary films in the 1960s United States.

by Manar Ellethy via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on April 10, 2024

Black mother holding baby

The Persistent Joy of Black Mothers

Characterized throughout American history as symbols of crisis, trauma, and grief, these women reject those narratives through world-making of their own.

by Leah Wright Rigueur via The Atlantic on August 11, 2021

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