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The California Klan’s Anti-Asian Crusade

Whereas southern Klansmen assaulted Black Americans and their white allies, western vigilantes targeted those they deemed a greater threat: Chinese immigrants.
by Kevin Waite via The Atlantic on April 6, 2021
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A Confusion of Language

On the legal foundations that spurred centuries of civil rights movements.
by Kate Masur via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 24, 2021
Eleanor Holmes Norton speaks, with Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer behind her.
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Is the Two-Century Battle for D.C. Statehood Finally Near an End?

The struggle for autonomy and representation has been full of gains followed by setbacks.
by Robinson Woodward-Burns via Made By History on March 23, 2021
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The Battle Against D.C. Statehood is Rooted in Anti-Black Racism

Understanding this history helps make the case for D.C. as the 51st state.
by Kyla Sommers via Made By History on March 22, 2021
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Voting Rights: A Retrospective

Voting, a right not initially enshrined in the Constitution, has been secured, revoked, and contested since the nation's founding era.
Senator Joe Manchin III walks through the U.S. Capitol.
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For 100 Years, the Filibuster Has Been Used to Deny Black Rights

The most significant impact of the Senate’s super majority rules.
by John Fabian Witt, Magdalene Zier via Made By History on March 18, 2021
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We Lionize Abraham Lincoln – But John Wilkes Booth Still Embodies a Part of America’s Soul

How the insurrection on January 6th brought a legendary assassin back to life.
by Bennett Parten via Public Seminar on March 18, 2021
Photo of former African American woman, Bernette Johnson, wearing judicial robes

The Dissenter

The rise of the first Black woman on the Louisiana Supreme Court was characterized by one battle after another with the Deep South’s white power structure.
by Elon Green via The Appeal on March 2, 2021
Veteran and militia during 1919 Chicago Race Riot

Rereading 'Darkwater'

W.E.B. DuBois, 100 years ago.
by Chad Williams via National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) on February 22, 2021
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It Would Be Great if the United States Were Actually a Democracy

The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.
by Aziz Rana, Chris Maisano via Jacobin on February 16, 2021

The Civil Rights Era was Supposed to Drastically Change America. It Didn’t.

From covid-19 to the 2020 election, the specter of America’s racist history influences many aspects of our lives.
by Stefan M. Bradley via Washington Post on December 23, 2020
Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams
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The Long History of Black Women Organizing in Georgia Might Decide Senate Control

Black women in Georgia have shaped local and state politics for more than a century.
by Danielle Phillips-Cunningham via Made By History on December 10, 2020
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A White Mob Unleashed the Worst Election Day Violence in U.S. History in Florida a Century Ago

In the small town of Ocoee, Fla., a racist mob went on a rampage after a Black man tried to cast his ballot on Nov. 2, 1920.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on November 2, 2020

‘America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy’ Is a Dangerous—And Wrong—Argument

Enabling sustained minority rule at the national level is not a feature of our constitutional design, but a perversion of it.
by George Thomas via The Atlantic on November 2, 2020
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Pointing a Way Forward

The history of suffrage in the South—indeed, the nation—is messy and fraught, and more contentious than is typically remembered.
by Jessica Wilkerson via Southern Cultures on October 1, 2020

For the First Time, America May Have an Anti-Racist Majority

Not since Reconstruction has there been such an opportunity for the advancement of racial justice.
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on September 8, 2020

Our Chief Danger

The story of the democratic movements that the framers of the U.S. Constitution feared and sought to suppress.
by William Hogeland via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 1, 2020
Mother with a laptop, surrounded by noisy children.
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Suffrage Movement Convinced Women They Could ‘Have it All’

More than a century later, they’re still paying the price.
by Allison K. Lange via Made By History on August 25, 2020

Women's Clubs and the "Lost Cause"

Women's clubs were popular after the Civil War among white and Black women. But white clubwomen used their influence to ingrain racist curriculum in schools.
by Matthew Wills, Joan Marie Johnson via JSTOR Daily on August 24, 2020

Beyond Speeches and Leaders

The role of Black churches in the Reconstruction of the United States.
by Nicole Myers Turner via Muster on August 14, 2020
Demonstrators surround a police car during the Watts uprising in 1965
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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 via Made By History on August 11, 2020
American Revolution-era political cartoon showing elites signing trade document at behest of working-class.

Fight For Economic Equality Is As Old as America Itself

Fears of great wealth and the need for economic equality go back to the country’s origins.
by Daniel R. Mandell via The Conversation on August 4, 2020
Women around a table of papers and forms, with a League of Women Voters banner on the wall.

What the First Women Voters Experienced When Registering for the 1920 Election

The process varied by state, with some making accommodations for the new voting bloc and others creating additional obstacles.
by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on July 30, 2020
Formal photograph of Ulysses S. Grant.

Public Monuments and Ulysses S. Grant’s Contested Legacy

It is fair to ask whether Grant’s prewar experiences define the entirety of his character, and who sets the bar for which public figures deserve commemoration.
by Nick Sacco via Muster on July 7, 2020

Will We Still Be American After Democracy Dies?

Is being "political" the central force in our identities?
by Johann N. Neem via Public Seminar on July 7, 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.
by Martha S. Jones via The Guardian on July 7, 2020
A statue of a woman and two children, with the photo taken at twilight with the moon in the background.

Mary McLeod Bethune Was at the Vanguard of More Than 50 Years of Black Progress

Winning the vote for women was a mighty struggle. Securing full liberation for women of color was no less daunting
by Martha S. Jones via Smithsonian on July 1, 2020

The Republican President who Called for Racial Justice in America After Tulsa Massacre

Warren G. Harding’s comments about race and equality were remarkable for 1921.
by James D. Robenalt via Retropolis on June 21, 2020

How the Republican Party Took Over the Supreme Court

The 50-year effort to advance a conservative legal agenda.
by John Fabian Witt via The New Republic on April 7, 2020
Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court holding signs for and against abortion rights.
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What Antiabortion Advocates Get Wrong About the Women Who Secured the Right to Vote

The most famous suffragists largely weren't anti-abortion and wanted women to have more control over their bodies.
by Reva B. Siegel, Stacie Taranto via Made By History on January 22, 2020

By Bullet or Ballot: One of the Only Successful Coups in American History

David Zucchino on the white supremacist plot to take over Wilmington, North Carolina.
by David Zucchino via Literary Hub on January 9, 2020
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