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On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century
A rally at Faneuil Hall in support of the Fourteenth Amendment and congressional investigation of southern disfranchisement.
by
Kerri K. Greenidge
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Literary Hub
on
October 14, 2020
A Military 1st: A Supercarrier is Named After an African-American Sailor
USS Doris Miller will honor a Black Pearl Harbor hero and key figure in the rise of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Jay Price
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NPR
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September 29, 2020
Bulletproofing American History
Mabel Wilson discusses the history of racial violence and the continued vandalism and destruction of Black historical memorials in the Deep South.
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Mabel O. Wilson
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E-Flux
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September 29, 2020
Kamala Harris Isn’t the First Black Woman to Run for VP. Meet Charlotta Bass.
In 1952, the newspaper publisher and activist joined a long-shot bid by the Progressive Party, paving the way for politicians like Harris.
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Teo Armus
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Washington Post
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August 12, 2020
Will MLB Confront Its Racist History?
The controversy over buildings, statues, and awards honoring racists has finally reached the baseball establishment.
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Peter Dreier
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Dissent
on
July 22, 2020
partner
Juneteenth in the Alternative Press
Reports in the underground press demonstrate how Juneteenth has been celebrated as both a social and political gathering in the twentieth century.
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JSTOR Daily
on
June 18, 2020
In 1918 and 2020, Race Colors America’s Response to Epidemics
A look at how Jim Crow affected the treatment of African Americans fighting the Spanish flu.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
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Andscape
on
April 1, 2020
The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919
In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre may rank as the deadliest.
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Jerome B. Karabel
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New York Review of Books
on
September 30, 2019
When W.E.B. Du Bois Made a Laughing Stock of a White Supremacist
Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.
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Ian Frazier
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The New Yorker
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August 19, 2019
The Forgotten All-Star Game That Helped Integrate Baseball
The battle for the integration of Major League Baseball started long before Jackie Robinson.
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Stephanie Liscio
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Deadspin
on
July 19, 2019
While NASA Was Landing on the Moon, Many African-Americans Sought Economic Justice Instead
The billions spent on the Apollo program, no matter how inspiring the mission, laid bare the nation's priorities.
by
Bryan Greene
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Smithsonian
on
July 11, 2019
Racial Terrorism and the Red Summer of 1919
The Red Summer represented one of the darkest and bloodiest moments in American history.
by
Ben Railton
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The Saturday Evening Post
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June 19, 2019
Homeland Insecurity
Mystery sorrounds the life of alumnus Homer Smith, who spent decades on an international odyssey to find a freedom in a place he could call home.
by
Jack El-Hai
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University of Minnesota
on
May 31, 2019
Maligned in Black and White
Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?
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Mark I. Pinsky
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Poynter
on
May 8, 2019
Traveling While Black Across the Atlantic Ocean
Following in the footsteps of 20th century African Americans, Ethelene Whitmire experiences a 21st century transatlantic crossing.
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Ethelene Whitmire
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Longreads
on
January 3, 2019
How Small-Town Newspapers Ignored Local Lynchings
Sherilynn A. Ifill on justice (and its absence) in the 1930s.
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Sherilynn A. Ifill
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Literary Hub
on
September 26, 2018
The Media and the Ku Klux Klan: A Debate That Began in the 1920s
The author of "Ku Klux Kulture" breaks down the ‘mutually beneficial’ relationship between the Klan and the media.
by
Lois Beckett
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Jesse Brenneman
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The Guardian
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March 5, 2018
The Hidden History of Black Nationalist Women's Political Activism
Contrary to popular conceptions, women were also instrumental to the spread and articulation of black nationalism.
by
Keisha N. Blain
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The Conversation
on
January 30, 2018
Simeon Booker, Intrepid Chronicler of Civil Rights Struggle for Jet and Ebony, Dies at 99
He risked his life to expose Emmett Till’s death and the Freedom Rides to a national audience.
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Emily Langer
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Washington Post
on
December 10, 2017
The Role of HBCUs and the Black Press in the Rise of the American Tennis Association
Historically black colleges and universities hosted all but six ATA tournaments from 1927 to 1968.
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Rhiannon Walker
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Andscape
on
August 4, 2017
Ida B. Wells and the Economics of Racial Violence
In the late 19th century, Wells connected lynchings to the economic interests and status anxieties of white southerners.
by
Megan Ming Francis
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Items
on
January 24, 2017
How Jackie Robinson Helped Defeat a Trump-Like Candidate
The baseball great warned of lasting repercussion for black voters during Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign.
by
Matt Delmont
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The Atlantic
on
March 19, 2016
partner
The Black Filmmaker
A look at racism in movie-making.
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Black Journal
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American Archive of Public Broadcasting
on
September 28, 1970
partner
60 Years Later, Freedom Schools Are Still Radical—and Necessary
The Freedom Schools curriculums developed in 1964 remain urgently needed, especially in our era of book bans and backlash.
by
Jon Hale
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Made by History
on
July 8, 2024
The Lynching That Sent My Family North
How we rediscovered the tragedy in Mississippi that ushered us into the Great Migration.
by
Ko Bragg
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The Atlantic
on
May 20, 2024
“The Black Woman”
Black women activism within documentary films in the 1960s United States.
by
Manar Ellethy
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Journal of the History of Ideas Blog
on
April 10, 2024
Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911
Beginning in 1905, one star-studded song-publishing company would push the aesthetic limits of how Black popular music was shown to the public.
by
Dorothy Berry
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The Public Domain Review
on
February 1, 2024
Break Every Chain
How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice.
by
Max J. Krupnick
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Harvard Magazine
on
January 5, 2024
The Many Lives of Samuel Ringgold Ward
A new biography examines the life of the abolitionist, newspaper editor, activist, and globetrotter.
by
Kellie Carter Jackson
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The Nation
on
October 18, 2023
A Record of Violence
Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
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Margaret A. Burnham
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Boston Review
on
July 26, 2023
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