The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights” – Chicago Review of Books

The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, historian Dylan Penningroth points to the journey towards civil rights for Black Americans beginning “in the fields and cabins of slaves.” Here, in the thick of Antebellum slavery, slaves crafted a knowledge of the law through acts such as accumulation and claims of … Read more

Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship” – Chicago Review of Books

Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] For Hawa Allan, history is a recurring nightmare. “Does this sound dramatic?” she asks in the beginning of her book Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship. “I don’t care, because it’s true.”  Allan is a lawyer, but also a writer of fiction and poetry. She is a lecturer at … Read more