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Black freedom struggle

Rachael Goodman and Cirecie West-Olatunji (Florida): Traumatic Stress, Systemic Oppression, and Resilience in Post-Katrina New Orleans. A review of Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North by C.S. Manegold (and more). An article on the extraordinary story of the hanging of the black man who owned slaves. Clay Risen reviews We Ain’t What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama by Stephen Tuck and Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama by Peniel Joseph (and more). A review of The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line by Roderick Bush. From PUP, the introduction to Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South by Christopher Parker; and the introduction to Little Rock: Race and Resistance at Central High School by Karen Anderson. A review of Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb by David Kushner. A review of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America by Beryl Satter. A review of Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980 by Devin Fergus. A review of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas. An excerpt from The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind by Safiya Bukhari. The first chapter from African American History for Dummies by Ronda Penrice.