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Branch Rickey’s Law: How New York State’s Ives-Quinn Act Opened the Door for Jackie Robinson
(2022-05-10)
The breaking of baseball’s color barrier in 1945 was an important victory in the long, ongoing
struggle for racial equality in America. Over the years, it has been a fertile subject for
historians, scholars, and artists. ...
Wrestling with the “fallacious doctrine of racial superiority”: The Discursive Construction of “Race” in American Bahá'í Periodicals
(2023-04-25)
American Bahá'í periodicals have said much about race and racial prejudice. This thesis brings to light the variations of that discourse to provide insight on how American Bahá'ís understood these concepts in relation to ...
Texas Slave Narratives Expose Effectiveness of "General Order No. 3": The Fragmentation of Juneteenth's Emancipated
(2023-05-03)
The language of General Order No. 3, “the Juneteenth Order,” exposes the complexities of freedom for roughly two hundred fifty thousand enslaved black Texans; therein, archival slave narratives challenge how its constructs ...