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Robert Greene II

Robert Greene II is a PhD candidate in history at the University of South Carolina, where he specializes in American intellectual history and the post-1945 history of the US South. He is also a blogger and book review editor for the Society of US Intellectual Historians, and has been published in The Nation, Scalawag, Dissent, and Jacobin. icon

Black Women Leaders, Then and Now

By Robert Greene II

In August 1966, Ebony magazine published an entire issue devoted to “The Negro Woman.” In it was an article by television personality and journalist ...

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