African American history

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• SOURCE: Scalawag
  8/3/2020
  

  John Lewis’ Legacy: Four Southern States are Still Battling for Voter Rights

  John Lewis lived to see the birth and dismantling of voting rights that he fought and bled for.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/5/2020
  

  Portraits that Honor the Men Who Participated in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike

  Carl Juste’s double portrait of father and son presents an extraordinarily intimate experience on the usually busy public plaza surrounding the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  8/6/2020
  

  The Voting Rights Act Was Signed 55 Years Ago. Black Women Led the Movement Behind It.

  Women such as Amelia Boynton Robinson, Diane Nash and Marie Foster are not acknowledged for their efforts during the 1960s.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  8/5/2020
  

  It’s Time The ‘Truth Be Told’ About Black Women’s Leadership In The Fight For The Vote

  New digital collection tells the untold stories of Black women’s vital role in the suffrage movement.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/5/2020
  

  Revolution on Trial: Looking back at New Haven's Black Panthers at 50

  The 50th anniversary of the polarising New Haven Nine trial has led to a group exhibition exploring racial injustice.

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• SOURCE: Christian Science Monitor
  7/30/2020
  

  More Than a Month: The Push to Change how Black History is Taught

  “Educators need to educate themselves,” educator Rann Miller says. “Quite frankly, you have a lot of white people who are unaware of the history of our nation. You may also have a lot of Black people who are unaware of the history of our nation.”

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• SOURCE: Real Change News
  7/30/2020
  

  Untold Fight for Black Women's Voting Rights

  In anticipation of Martha Jones' book 'Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All'.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/31/2020
  

  Black Women’s Long Struggle for Voting Rights

  "As historian Faye E. Dudden writes in 'Fighting Change,' her book on the suffrage movement in the Reconstruction period, Stanton dipped her pen into a tincture of white racism and sketched a reference to a nightmarish figure, the black rapist'.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  Returning From War, Returning to Racism

  Historians and scholars including Ira Katznelson, Jeffrey Sammons, Edward Humes, Richard Rothstein, David H. Onkst, and Charissa Threat describe the difficulties faced by Black veterans of World War II returning to a racist society. 

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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: Wall Street Journal
  7/28/2020
  

  Nicodemus: A Kansas Town That Made Black History Copes With 2020

  Homecoming, a celebration that has drawn descendants of the town’s post-Civil War founders for generations, moves online due to coronavirus.

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• SOURCE: Amsterdam News
  7/23/2020
  

  Princeton Prof Eddie Glaude Talks New Book ‘Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America’

  Glaude’s book reminds us that the duty to turn things around is ours. Baldwin is our guide.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  7/26/2020
  

  Benny White, Who Brought Black History to Life Leading Civil War Reenactors, Dies at 75

  “He dedicated his life to it,” said his brother Marco White of Hyde Park. “Everything in his life was the 54th.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/27/2020
  

  I Interviewed John Lewis 45 Years Ago. His Commitment To Voting Rights Never Wavered.

  “It’s still a source of pain that the Voting Rights Act has not been more actively enforced,” Lewis told me in 1975, 10 years after passage of the law.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/27/2020
  

  At 88, He is a Historical Rarity — the Living Son of a Slave

  Although the one-generation link between Dan Smith and his formerly enslaved father is remarkable, historian Hilary Green reminds readers that the time passed since Emancipation is still relatively short. 

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• SOURCE: Equal Justice Initiative
  7/24/2020
  

  On This Day: Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Exposed by Washington Star Newspaper

  Over the study's 40-year span, 128 participants died of syphilis or syphilis-related complications.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  7/22/2020
  

  C.T. Vivian was a Giant Figure in the Civil Rights Movement: 5 Things You May Not Have Known about Him

  Vivian was a monumental figure in the Civil Rights Movement, with a stretch of advocating for racial equality for more than six decades from his first sit-in demonstrations in the 1940s in Peoria, Illinois.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/22/2020
  

  Tulsa’s First Dig For Suspected Mass Graves From 1921 Massacre Of Black People Finds No Human Remains

  The massacre — one of the worst episodes of racist violence in U.S. history — became the subject of renewed scrutiny as Tulsa prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary next year. 

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• SOURCE: NBC5-DFW
  7/22/2020
  

  Historian Daina Ramey Berry on Injustice: People Are ‘Fed Up'

  "Social justice means that all human beings are given equal opportunities that are evenly distributed and certain groups are not allowed privileges denied to others," said Berry.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/22/2020
  

  The History of Black Women and Internationalism (Review)

  by Robert Greene II

  A new collected volume examines international connections between women activists in the African diaspora.