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View of students and teachers outside what is thought to be a Freedmen's school, Beaufort, South Carolina, late 1860s.

Black Americans and Education

How did African Americans protest the laws that prevented their formal education at mainstream white institutions and intended to prove their inferiority in the time period before the 1950s?

Workers of the World

Black Communism

How did the American Communist Party collaborate with Black Activists to fight for economic and social justice during the 1930’s?