Modern US History – Retrospect Journal

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Features

The Combahee River Collective and Intersectionality in the Age of Identity

Written by Jess Womack. The Combahee River Collective grew out of disillusionments with “mainstream” feminism. Founded in the early 1980s by Black queer women, the Collective developed an “intersectional” approach to political activism.

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Academic

Henry Wallace and the 1944 Democratic National Convention

Written by Laszlo Wheatley. The declining health of Roosevelt by 1944 meant the choice of Vice president was more important than ever. How then did Henry Wallace, the sitting Vice President, lose the nomination overnight?

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Academic

The Road to Brown and Little Rock: Beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States

Written by Jack Bennett. We often pinpoint moments in the Civil Rights Movement which led to massive change, but what came before? A look at events in the 1930s and 40s upon which the Civil Rights Movement was built.