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Dylan C. Penningroth

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Lessons from MLK's Fight to Mobilize the Black Church

The history of Black churches’ struggles offers both warnings and hope for the U.S. today.

by Dylan C. Penningroth via TIME on January 13, 2024
The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement

On upending the accepted narrative of the movement.

by Dylan C. Penningroth via Literary Hub on October 4, 2023

Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

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Recovering the Forgotten Past of Black Legal Lives

Dylan C. Penningroth challenges nearly every aspect of our traditional understanding of civil rights history.

by Ajay K. Mehrotra via Los Angeles Review of Books on April 3, 2025

Spectators and witnesses at the trial for a case involving an automobile accident, Oxford, North Carolina, 1939.

A ‘Wary Faith’ in the Courts

A groundbreaking new book demonstrates that even during the days of slavery, African Americans knew a lot more about legal principles than has been imagined.

by Eric Foner via New York Review of Books on March 14, 2024

Book cover of "Before the Movement" by Dylan C. Penningroth

What the Conventional Narrative Gets Wrong About the Civil Rights Movement

A new book illuminates how Black Americans used property ownership, common law and other methods to assert their rights.

by Matt Delmont via Washington Post on September 26, 2023

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Popular History

What role do we really want history to be playing in our public life? And is the history we have actually doing that work?

by Scott Spillman via The Point on September 29, 2024

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