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TitleTo count and be counted: quantification in the age of American slavery

AuthorWierda, Meagan

Date Created2022

Degree Date2022-10

DescriptionThis dissertation, which spans the period between the 1820s and the Civil War, uses debates about slavery and citizenship to explore how and to what end African Americans incorporated quantification...

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Title"Everyone must think we really need freedom"

AuthorWalker, Pamela

Date Created2021

Degree Date2021-05

DescriptionThis dissertation illuminates the participation of ordinary Black and white women in the Civil Rights Movement by examining an antipoverty program called The Mississippi Box Project. Founded in 1962...

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TitleConfronting the rebel yell: how African Americans created and contested Civil War memory, 1865-1965

AuthorLawrence-Sanders, Ashleigh

Date Created2019

Degree Date2019-10

DescriptionConfronting the Rebel Yell: How African Americans Created and Contested Civil War Memory, 1865-1965 centers Black American memory creation and counter-memory of the Civil War through the mid-20th...