Mary-Elizabeth Murphy

history professor; author of Jim Crow Capital (UNC, 2018) & Policing Passengers: Black Women and Fight Against Bus Violence (UNC, 2026!)

[Mary-Elizabeth Murphy @jimcrowcapital]

Keep the focus on Breonna Taylor’s murder and the gendered history of interracial police violence. Here’s my piece in ⁦@madebyhistory⁩ that is based on chapter 3 of Jim Crow Capital & cites many compelling scholars, esp. ⁦@KeishaBlain⁩ https://t.co/kNAPaNwG8m

[Mary-Elizabeth Murphy @jimcrowcapital]

Policing Passengers: Black Women & the Fight Against Bus Violence will appear with @UNC_Press on November 10! Before the Montgomery Bus Boycott & the Freedom Rides, Black women founded bus protest & resisted violent bus driving policing with *43* lawsuits.

[Talitha L. LeFlouria @TLeFlouria]

I am excited to share that my new book, Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block, is available for preorder from any major bookseller. I hope you will share this resource with others and use it to raise awareness about an epidemic that has lasted over 200 years. @blackgirlsdream @eji_org @splcenter @AAPolicyForum @ASALH @ZinnEdProject @ANewWayofLife1 @IMKC_podcast @UNCSouth @ABWHTruth @UT_HistDept @LiberalArtsUT @Warfield_UT @ProjectSouth @SentencingProj @verainstitute @PrisonPolicy @WomenOnTheRise1 @rechfoundation @TrueBeginning @releasemd @LeftOfBlack @GOGbookclub @win_recovery @innocence @BlkMamasMatter @ACLU @BrennanCenter @ColorOfChange @NMAAHC @NAACP_LDF @NBWJInstitute @NbLtop100 @NationalAction

[Mary-Elizabeth Murphy @jimcrowcapital]

So excited!

[Manisha Sinha @ProfMSinha]

Historian here very much looking forward to this talk at Eastern Michigan today. Join us if you can Michigan folks! #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

[Eastern Michigan @EasternMichU]

EMU's Department of Africology and African American Studies is now showing a new exhibit at the Halle Library Gallery that will run throughout #BlackHistoryMonth, showcasing the evolution and impact of the department at EMU. #TRUEMU

To learn more, visit https://t.co/oPxZ8Y0iGV.

[Mary-Elizabeth Murphy @jimcrowcapital]

It's a wonderful day when you get to meet a student activist from @EasternMichU in the 1960s and then ask him to pose with his iconic photo!

[Jerry Gershenhorn @[email protected] @JerryGersh1]

On Monday, January 12, at 5 pm, the next iteration of the Booker T. Spicely Exhibition will open at Duke University's Classroom Building (East Campus, home of the History Dept), Second Floor. The opening will include music by Lois Deloatch and a talk by Timothy B. Tyson.

[Mary-Elizabeth Murphy @jimcrowcapital]

@CulturedModesty Interesting. She says, "A trickle of Montgomery residents had resisted mistreatment on the bus in the decade before Parks’s arrest." I have a book coming out next year that shows that resistance was much more widespread and included *many* lawsuits.

[Mary-Elizabeth Murphy @jimcrowcapital]

Huge congratulations @madameclair08! Thrilled that I have a signed copy!

[AAIHS @AAIHS]

📚We are pleased to release this year’s AAIHS list of the best books published in 2025! Check out this extraordinary list of great books from 2025 that offer varied historical perspectives on the Black experience in the United States & across the globe.

https://t.co/NBpULEtFuM

[The Conversation U.S. @ConversationUS]

More than 40 years after police killed Eleanor Bumpurs in her Bronx apartment, people still #sayhername ⬇️ https://t.co/7ORsdZbk4x

[Grigoris Argeros @grigorisargeros]

A proud moment I’ll shamelessly share: while searching for info/data on a topic, I came across a study authored by one of my former grad students. It gave me a five-mile wide smile.

[Mary-Elizabeth Murphy @jimcrowcapital]

Beyond proud of the university where I teach! @EasternMichU

[Eastern Michigan @EasternMichU]

EMU celebrated the graduation of the first cohort from its College in Prison program at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility. EMU is the first public institution to establish a bachelor’s program for incarcerated women. #TRUEMU

@FOX2News https://t.co/s1jh3B6UCM

[Mary-Elizabeth Murphy @jimcrowcapital]

Huge congratulations to my wonderful & talented M.A. History student @EMUcas_ , Marie Sarnacki, who is starting the Ph.D. program in History at @waynestate! & won Michigan History Teacher of the Year! @Gilder_Lehrman

[Eastern Michigan @EasternMichU]

Marie Sarnacki (MA ’24) has been named Michigan History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute. Her thesis on child welfare policy began at EMU, and her impact is just getting started.

#TRUEMU #EMUAlum

[Ashley D. Farmer @drashleyfarmer]

“A monumental achievement. The meticulousness of Ashley Farmer’s research is matched only by the grace of her prose. The result is a lucid, fascinating biography—a rendering worthy of the great Audley Moore herself.”

– @jelani9, Dean of Columbia Journalism School

[LaShawn Harris @madameclair08]

Pub Day for #Tellherstory! Thank you @BeaconPressBks! 🥳

Order: https://t.co/HJjUdDd1Ei

Read an excerpt from the book. Thank you @HellGateNY!

[Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom @FashioningSelf]

Taken in 1947, Esther Bubley’s "Greyhound Bus Station, New York City" captures two sharply dressed African American men in conversation while waiting at the Capitol Greyhound Bus Terminal at 245 West 50th Street in Midtown Manhattan. Their tailored suits, fedoras, and relaxed, yet posed body language convey an assertion of style and presence. The image stands as a document of mid-century black fashion, urban life, and conviviality in a transitory space that no longer exists, as Greyhound operations moved to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in 1963. https://t.co/Wr8850kMIl

[Revolution's Newsstand @revnewsstand]

‘Washington D.C.--Jim-Crow Capital’ by Marguerite Young from New Masses. Vol. 15. Nos. 7 & 8. May 14 & 21, 1935.

A must read for background to the current racist Federal take-over of the city. Excellent.
https://t.co/UZakJcFvjq

[Jerry Gershenhorn @[email protected] @JerryGersh1]

Please join us for the opening of "Booker T. Spicely: Citizen, Soldier, Martyr, Hero," at the Museum of Durham History, 500 W. Main Street, Durham, NC, Friday, August 22, at 6 pm. Major funding provided by @CityofDurhamNC @creativedurham

[demi adejuyigbe @electrolemon]

whoa. very honored to have Gilmore Guys named as one of the Best 100 Podcasts of All Time by @TIME. extremely humbled to see a baby faced photo of myself and Kevin from 11 (!) years ago. ❤️ https://t.co/zx6qmTu081

[Grigoris Argeros @grigorisargeros]

A piece I wrote on the latest population changes in the Detroit metro area, including a brief discussion of the sociodemographic and spatial differences across its suburbs. https://t.co/g0x3oPpasw

[Edda Fields-Black (she/her/hers) @eddafieldsblack]

COMBEE wins the 2025 #PulitzerPrize in History! I cherish this distinction for COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War. Harriet Tubman, the Combahee freedom seekers, and their legacy deserve nothing less. @OUPAcademic