segregation

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• SOURCE: Politico
  8/6/2020
  

  Trump Doesn’t Understand Today’s Suburbs—And Neither Do You

  Suburbs are getting more diverse, but that doesn't mean they’re woke. Historian Thomas Sugrue says if you want to understand where American politics is going, look how suburban whites are sorting themselves out.

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  7/31/2020
  

  The Teen Promoter, the Janitor, and a Stunning Rediscovered Thelonious Monk Gig

  “As soon as T.S. Monk listened to the recording, he knew right away that his father was feeling really good that day and wasn’t just going through the motions,” Danny Scher said.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/31/2020
  

  MLB Commemorates The 100th Anniversary Of The Negro Leagues (audio)

  Minnie Forbes, age 88, is the last surviving owner of a Negro League baseball team, and worries that the full story of the league and its teams and players may go untold. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  7/30/2020
  

  What Does Trump Think the ‘Suburban Lifestyle Dream’ Means?

  In his ongoing campaign to paint racial desegregation as a bid to “abolish the suburbs,” the president is pushing a vision of suburban voters based on a dated demographic reality. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  Why Trump’s Blunt Appeals to Suburban Voters May Not Work

  “[Nixon's campaigns] understood something about race that Trump doesn’t understand,” [Matthew] Lassiter said. “Voters don’t want racial privilege challenged, but they don’t want to be explicitly reminded that racism is underneath their position.”

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• SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
  7/27/2020
  

  Disinvestment in Black and Latino Chicago Neighborhoods is Rooted in Policy. Here’s how these Communities Continue to be Negatively Impacted.

  “When they were protesting in 1963, it was a desegregation protest but the things that people were chanting were like, ‘What do we want? Books! When do we want them? Now!’” said historian Elizabeth Todd-Breland.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  7/22/2020
  

  Tearing Down Black America

  by Brent Cebul

  Ensuring that Black Lives Matter doesn't just require police reform. The history of urban renewal shows that governments have worked to dismantle and destabilize Black communities in the name of progress.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  7/14/2020
  

  How Woodrow Wilson Tried to Reverse Black American Progress

  Historian Eric S. Yellin discusses the impact of Wilson's decision to impose segregation on federal employment, a major blow to black aspirations. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/1/2020
  

  White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity

  At an earlier point in American history, some Christian theologians went so far as to argue that the enslavement of human beings was justifiable from a biblical point of view.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  6/30/2020
  

  Princeton University Removes Woodrow Wilson From School Name (Audio)

  Julian Zelizer discusses Princeton's decision to rename its school of Public Policy. 

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• SOURCE: WTOP
  6/28/2020
  

  Parents, Historians Urge DC’s Mayor Bowser To Initiate Wilson High Name Change

  Honoring a person like Wilson sends a poor message when in general, society should be honoring the ideals of diversity, respect, equality and inclusion said Judith Ingram, co-founder of the D.C. History and Justice Collective.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  6/27/2020
  

  ‘An Inappropriate Namesake’: Princeton Strips Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Public-Policy School

  Princeton's decision is all the more notable for how recently the university had resisted this precise step. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  6/26/2020
  

  My Confederate Past

  by Stuart Stevens

  I ask myself now why did it take so long for me to realize what it might be like for nearly 40 percent of my state to go to school and work under a flag that represented a cause dedicated to the right to own their ancestors? 

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• SOURCE: KCRW
  6/24/2020
  

  Who Owns History? New Book Reconsiders San Gabriel Valley’s Pioneer Past

  The local history project East of East seeks to amplify the histories of people of color in El Monte, CA.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  6/24/2020
  

  Want to Tear Down Insidious Monuments to Racism and Segregation? Bulldoze L.A. Freeways

  Los Angeles historian Gilbert Estrada's work shows how planners in the city used federal highway funding to disrupt multiracial communities and serve whites-only suburban developments, increasing segregation and inequality in the region. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/20/2020
  

  To Avoid Integration, Americans Built Barricades in Urban Space

  Urban inequality didn’t happen by accident.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/21/2020
  

  Monmouth University to Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Building

  Historians, including some at Monmouth, have said that Wilson believed in white supremacy and advanced policies to support his racist worldview.

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• SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
  6/14/2020
  

  Edith White, World War II ‘Code Girl’ and Norfolk Academy Librarian who Fought Massive Resistance, Dies at 96

  Edith White was part of a team of women who served the US Navy as codebreakers, and fought for democratic values like integrated schools after the war's end. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/11/2020
  

  Richmond’s Confederate Monuments Were Used to Sell a Segregated Neighborhood

  by Kevin M. Levin

  The Confederate monuments dedicated throughout the South from 1880 to 1930 helped do the work of justifying segregation and relegating African Americans to second-class status. Monument Avenue was unique in this regard as part of a speculative real estate development (for whites only, naturally).

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/10/2020
  

  The Template for Using White Privilege to Fight Racism

  by Nancy C. Unger

  Whiteness enables allies in this struggle to push in ways that African Americans sometimes cannot without disproportionate risk. That was Belle La Follette’s secret — she used white privilege to fight against it.