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A Family From High Plains
Sappony tobacco farmers across generations, and across state borders, when North Carolina and Virginia law diverged on tribal recognition, education, and segregation.
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Nick Martin
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Splinter
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August 2, 2018
White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream
“Very fine people”—fathers and husbands, as well as mothers and daughters—have always been central to the work of white supremacy.
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Stephen Kantrowitz
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Boston Review
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July 23, 2018
We Should Embrace the Ambiguity of the 14th Amendment
A hundred and fifty years after its ratification, some of its promises remain unfulfilled—but one day it may still be interpreted anew.
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Eric Foner
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The Nation
on
July 9, 2018
A Cool Dip & A Little Dignity
In 1961, two African-American men decided to go swimming at a whites-only Nashville pool. In response, the city closed all its public pools — for three years.
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Erin E. Tocknell
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The Bitter Southerner
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July 2, 2018
Black Wall Street: The African American Haven That Burned and Then Rose From the Ashes
The story of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood district isn’t well known, but it has never been told in a manner worthy of its importance.
by
Victor Luckerson
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The Ringer
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June 28, 2018
Why Do Sports Teams Visit the White House?
The president’s patriotic pageant renews a question dating back to the first White House visit by a champion sports team.
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Yoni Appelbaum
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The Atlantic
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June 5, 2018
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Traveling While Black
In 1936, Victor Green published a guide of restaurants, gas stations and lodgings that would accommodate African Americans travelling across the country.
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BackStory
on
June 1, 2018
The New Orleans Streetcar Protests of 1867
The lesser-known beginning of the desegregation of public transportation.
by
John Bardes
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We're History
on
April 28, 2018
'Segregation's Constant Gardeners': How White Women Kept Jim Crow Alive
Meet the good white mothers, PTA members, and newspaper columnists who were also committed white supremacists.
by
Rebecca Stoner
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Pacific Standard
on
April 12, 2018
The Data Proves That School Segregation Is Getting Worse
This is ultimately a disagreement over how we talk about school segregation.
by
Alvin Chang
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Vox
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March 5, 2018
Medicare and the Desegregation of Health Care
Separate hospitals for black and white patients were the norm in America, but then all of that changed — and it changed quickly.
by
Elana Gordon
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WHYY
on
February 15, 2018
The Complicated History of Race and Mardi Gras
The celebration is steeped in a history of racial politics no number of floats could easily erase.
by
Trimiko Melancon
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Black Perspectives
on
February 9, 2018
Remember the Orangeburg Massacre
The February 1968 killing of three student protesters in Orangeburg, SC marked a turning point in the black freedom struggle.
by
Robert Greene II
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Dissent
on
February 7, 2018
Memories of Mississippi
SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon recounts his experiences in the early days of the civil rights movement.
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Danny Lyon
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New York Review of Books
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January 10, 2018
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Discriminating in the Name of Religion? Segregationists and Slaveholders Did It, Too.
If religious freedom trumps equality under the law, it provides a “cover” that actually encourages discrimination.
by
Tisa Wenger
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Made By History
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December 5, 2017
Remembering the Freedom Train
In an effort to awaken Americans to their own history, the Truman Administration conceived of a moving museum.
by
Ted Widmer
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The New Yorker
on
November 26, 2017
America’s Painful, Historic Contempt for Black Soldiers
Donald Trump writes the latest chapter in a long history.
by
Jamelle Bouie
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Slate
on
October 24, 2017
Sex, Swimming and Chicago's Racial Divide
Even as a child, Eugene Williams was not safe from the harm caused by the ways of northern racism.
by
Betsy Schlabach
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Black Perspectives
on
October 3, 2017
This Football Player Fought for Civil Rights in the '60s
Here's what he thinks about national anthem protests.
by
Clem Daniels
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Olivia B. Waxman
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TIME
on
September 8, 2017
Rosa Parks’ Detroit Home And Hard Truths About The ‘Northern Promised Land That Wasn’t’
The civil rights activist and her family had to contend with racial discrimination beyond Montgomery.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
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The Root
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September 7, 2017
Mont Pelerin in Virginia
A new book on James Buchanan and public-choice theory explores the Southern roots of the free-market right.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
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The Nation
on
September 7, 2017
The Military, Minorities, and Social Engineering
Trump’s transgender ban restarts the debate about the relation between military service and social policy.
by
Richard S. Slotkin
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The Conversation
on
August 7, 2017
What We Still Get Wrong About What Happened in Detroit in 1967
One of the key factors in what happened in 1967 in Detroit has long gone overlooked
by
Lily Rothman
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TIME
on
August 3, 2017
One Hundred Years After the Silent Parade
Here's what we've learned about mass protests since the 1917 Silent Parade.
by
Isabel Wilkerson
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Synclaire Cruel
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PBS NewsHour
on
July 29, 2017
The Georgia Peach May Be Vanishing, but Its Mythology Is Alive and Well
It's been a tough year for the Georgia peach.
by
William Thomas Okie
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The Conversation
on
July 20, 2017
What the Nazis Learned from America
Rigid racial codes in the early 20th century gained the admiration not only of many American elites, but also of Nazi Germany.
by
Jessica Blatt
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Public Books
on
July 6, 2017
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The Civil Rights Act was a Victory Against Racism. But Racists Also Won.
The bill unleashed a poisonous idea: that America had defeated racism.
by
Ibram X. Kendi
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Made By History
on
July 2, 2017
Remembering the 'Overshadowed' Civil Rights Protest That Desegregated Gulf Coast Beaches
A project commemorating an often-overlooked civil-rights milestone recently received the Knight Cities Challenge prize.
by
Lily Rothman
via
TIME
on
June 16, 2017
Lynching in America
A new digital exhibit confronts the legacy of racial terror.
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Equal Justice Initiative
on
June 13, 2017
The True History of the South Is Not Being Erased
Taking down Confederate monuments helps confront the past, not obscure it.
by
Garrett Epps
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The Atlantic
on
June 11, 2017
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