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‘Before the Movement’: The Hidden and Vibrant History of Black Civil Rights
October 30, 2023
‘Before the Movement’ Review: Civil Rights at the Courthouse
October 28, 2023
The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement
October 4, 2023
A ‘Wary Faith’ in the Courts
April 4, 2024
Lessons from Martin Luther King Jr.’s Fight to Mobilize the Black Church
January 13, 2024
In ‘Before the Movement,' Dylan C. Penningroth Finds Lost Legacies
Winter 2023
What the conventional narrative gets wrong about the civil rights movement
September 26, 2023
How Civil Rights Were Made—and Remade—By Black Communities In the Jim Crow South
The Legal Lives of Slaves in America
September 15, 2023
Dylan Penningroth was chosen to join the Historians Council on the Constitution along with 17 other expert historians from leading institutions nationwide.
Interview with host Katrina Anderson
Professor Dylan Penningroth’s New Book Centers the Law in Black Lives, from the 1830s to the 1970s
Vibrant Black Legal Life in “Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights”
September 21, 2023
Interview with host Sharon McMahon
September 23, 2023
Review of Before the Movement: A Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
August 20, 2023
July 13, 2023