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Crusader for Justice
Ida B. Wells reported on lynching in the South, risking her own safety.
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Deborah Gardner
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Amari Pollard
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Emily Sutton
via
Southern Cultures
on
November 5, 2020
A Crashing Monument and the Echoes of War
The collapse of John C. Calhoun's statue created a sound not unlike artillery in the war he influenced.
by
Justin Bristol
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Muster
on
October 20, 2020
Howard Johnson’s, Host of the Bygone Ways
For more than seven decades American roads were dotted with the familiar orange roof and blue cupola of the ubiquitous Howard Johnson’s restaurants and Motor Lodges.
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Sometimes Interesting
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October 15, 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
The Case for Ending the Supreme Court as We Know It
The Supreme Court, the federal branch with the least public accountability, has historically sided with tradition over more expansive human rights visions.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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The New Yorker
on
September 25, 2020
Is Freedom White?
In our current politics we must be attentive to how talk of American freedom has long been connected to the presumed right of whites to dominate everyone else.
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Jefferson Cowie
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Boston Review
on
September 23, 2020
What Smells Can Teach Us About History
How we perceive the senses changes in different historical, political, and cultural contexts. Sensory historians ask what people smelled, touched and tasted.
by
Shayla Love
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Vice
on
September 16, 2020
The History Behind the Roller Skating Trend
Since its invention in 1743, roller skating has been tied to Black social movements.
by
Ruth Terry
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JSTOR Daily
on
September 7, 2020
The Day Malcolm X Was Killed
At the height of his powers, the Black Nationalist leader was assassinated, and the government botched the investigation of his murder.
by
Les Payne
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The New Yorker
on
August 27, 2020
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Understanding Today’s Uprisings Requires Understanding What Came Before Them
The media must make the long years of organizing as visible as the eruptions and uprisings.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
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Made By History
on
August 11, 2020
Racist Litter
A review of Eric Foner's The Second Founding.
by
Randall Kennedy
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London Review of Books
on
July 30, 2020
The Vow James Baldwin Made to Young Civil Rights Activists
How James Baldwin confronted America's most exceptional lie.
by
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
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Literary Hub
on
July 28, 2020
Americans Are Determined to Believe in Black Progress
Whether it’s happening or not.
by
Jennifer A. Richeson
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The Atlantic
on
July 27, 2020
‘America’s Black Dreyfus Affair’ and the Long Battle to Right Teddy Roosevelt’s Wrong
167 Black soldiers were dishonorably discharged from the army in 1906. Two Angelenos corrected the historical record in the 1970s.
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Julia Bricklin
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Zócalo Public Square
on
July 13, 2020
The US Suffragette Movement Tried to Leave Out Black Women. They Showed Up Anyway
Racism and sexism were bound together in the fight to vote – and Black women made it clear they would never cede the question of their voting rights to others.
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Martha S. Jones
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The Guardian
on
July 7, 2020
What Woodrow Wilson Did to Robert Smalls
We all know, in the abstract, that Wilson was a white supremacist. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one accomplished Black American.
by
Aderson François
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The New Republic
on
July 3, 2020
The Lost Cause’s Long Legacy
Why does the U.S. Army name its bases after generals it defeated?
by
Michael Paradis
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The Atlantic
on
June 26, 2020
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The 1968 Kerner Commission Report Still Echoes Across America
Anger over policing and inequality boiled over more than 50 years ago, and a landmark report warned that it could happen again.
by
Clyde Haberman
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Retro Report
on
June 23, 2020
When the KKK Played Against an All-Black Baseball Team
For the white-robed, playing a black team was a gift-wrapped photo op, a chance to show that the Klan was part of the local community.
by
John Florio
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Ouisie Shapiro
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The Nation
on
June 22, 2020
Early Photographs of Juneteenth Celebrations
Historical photographs of early Juneteenth celebrations throughout its home state of Texas and across the country.
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The Public Domain Review
on
June 19, 2020
Commemorating the Nurses of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Female nurses served their country domestically and abroad by caring for soliders striken by the influenza pandemic.
by
Allison S. Finkelstein
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Arlington National Cemetery
on
June 12, 2020
The Right’s Reign on the Air Waves
How talk radio established the power of the modern Republican Party.
by
Jake Bittle
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The New Republic
on
June 1, 2020
NOLA Resistance Oral History Project
This oral history project records testimony from individuals who were active in the fight for racial equality in New Orleans between 1954 and 1976.
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The Historic New Orleans Collection
on
June 1, 2020
These Photos Capture the Lives of African American Soldiers Who Served During World War II
Pittsburgh photographer Teenie Harris focused on the patriotism of men who fought for the country abroad while being discriminated against at home.
by
Dominique Luster
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Smithsonian
on
May 22, 2020
What’s Going On
The vexed history of "Night Life" in the New Yorker.
by
Phillip Golub
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The Drift
on
May 22, 2020
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A Public Calamity
The ways that authorities in Richmond, Virginia, responded to the 1918 Flu offer a lens onto what – and who – was most valued by those in power there.
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Future Of America's Past
on
May 1, 2020
“We Were Called Comrades Without Condescension or Patronage”
In the Jim Crow South, the Alabama Communist Party distinguished itself as a champion of racial and economic justice.
by
Arvind Dilawar
,
Mary Stanton
via
Jacobin
on
April 30, 2020
The Largest Human Zoo in World History
Visiting the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis.
by
Walter Johnson
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
April 14, 2020
The Hidden Life of Rosa Parks
A woman who repeatedly challenged racial violence and the prejudiced systems protecting its perpetrators.
by
Riché Richardson
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TED
on
April 10, 2020
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