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Lessons from MLK's Fight to Mobilize the Black Church
The history of Black churches’ struggles offers both warnings and hope for the U.S. today.
by
Dylan C. Penningroth
via
TIME
on
January 13, 2024
The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement
On upending the accepted narrative of the movement.
by
Dylan C. Penningroth
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Literary Hub
on
October 4, 2023
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Before the Movement
: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
Dylan C. Penningroth
2023
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A groundbreaking new book demonstrates that even during the days of slavery, African Americans knew a lot more about legal principles than has been imagined.
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What the Conventional Narrative Gets Wrong About the Civil Rights Movement
A new book illuminates how Black Americans used property ownership, common law and other methods to assert their rights.
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Popular History
What role do we really want history to be playing in our public life? And is the history we have actually doing that work?
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