African American history

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  6/15/2019
  

  Atlanta History Center acquires rare battle flag of Civil War’s black troops

  The flag is the only surviving example of 11 similar flags painted by David Bustill Bowser, a Philadelphia sign-painter, portraitist and anti-slavery activist.

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• SOURCE: Lancaster Online
  6/10/2019
  

  Civil War-era flag of black regiment to be auctioned; historian says it is last of its kind

  The flag represents the 127th Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops and is being sold by the Grand Army of the Republic Museum in Philadelphia to bolster the museum’s finances.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/10/19
  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations

  “When I wrote ‘The Case for Reparations,’ my notion wasn’t that you could actually get reparations passed, even in my lifetime,” Coates says.

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• SOURCE: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  5/31/2019
  

  National Archives to host retrospective on African Americans in U.S.

  A retrospective on the black odyssey in America is scheduled for later this month at the National Archives at Atlanta.

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• SOURCE: AP
  6/2/19
  

  D-Day’s 24 hours changed 20th century, and Europe, forever

  International leaders will gather again this week to honor the dwindling number of D-Day veterans.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/4/19
  

  He Served With D-Day’s Only African-American Combat Unit. His Widow Is Still Fighting for His Medal of Honor

  Waverly Woodson died in 2005 but his widow, Joann Woodson, who turned 90 on May 26, has made it her mission to see that her husband’s heroism is acknowledged.

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• 5/26/19
  

  For Anti-Racist Educator, Teaching History Was a Calling

  by Erik Moshe

  The most valuable history is often the most difficult to find; it is what we don’t even know that we need to know that gets us into trouble. 

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  5/21/19
  

  How Lonnie Bunch came to lead the Museum of African American History

  "I get to get people excited about the past, I get to tell stories of resiliency of optimism, I get to actually do the thing I love most – talk about American history."

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• 5/19/19
  

  The History of Black Women Championing Demands for Reparations

  by Ana Lucia Araujo

  For black women, the fight for reparations is not a new opportunity, it is a long-lasting battle for social justice.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/13/19
  

  30 Years Later, Making Sense Of The MOVE Bombing

  City police had killed nearly a dozen people and, in the process, leveled an entire swath of a neighborhood full of middle-class black homeowners. 

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• SOURCE: AP
  5/12/19
  

  Alabama historical group elects first black president

  The Alabama Historical Association has elected Wetumpka native Franzine Taylor as president for the upcoming year.

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• 5/12/19
  

  The Remarkable History of the Union League Club

  by Michael Hogan

  Few remember the pivotal role played by a small social club in New York City during the Civil War and beyond. 

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• 5/12/19
  

  Jane Manning James and African American Women in the Mormon Church

  by Quincy D. Newell

  Jane Elizabeth Manning James, a free black woman who converted to Mormonism in the early 1840s, provides a little-known vantage point from which to tell a story of Mormonism that takes the church’s racial history into account.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/3/19
  

  Sarah Lewis' grandfather was expelled from school for asking why his textbooks had no black people. Today she teaches at Harvard.

  Lewis teaches art history and African American studies at Harvard.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/1/19
  

  A Digital Way to Follow the Freedom Riders’ Journey Against Segregation During the Civil Rights Era

  The Civil Rights activists faced violence in multiple cities in their fight for equality.

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• 5/5/19
  

  James Byrd, Jr., John William King, and the History of American Lynching

  by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

  We need a historical understanding of how lynchg discourse continues to shape America’s enduring “dialogue on race.”  

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/1/19
  

  Saidiya Hartman Unravels the Archive

  In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Hartman recovers the forgotten “sexual modernists” of 20th century black life.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/28/19
  

  The centuries-long fight for reparations

  by Ana Lucia Araujo

  There is a long and old tradition of black men and women demanding restitution for the time they were enslaved.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/30/19
  

  A brief history of the enduring phony science that perpetuates white supremacy

  Feauturing the reserach of historian Ibram X. Kendi. 

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• SOURCE: PBS
  Accessed 4/25/19
  

  Video of the Week: New Documentary ‘Boss’ Explores Black Business in America

  The PBS film features stories from a number of African-American entrepreneurs, including several Chicagoans who played key roles in various industries, from journalist Ida B. Wells to publisher John H. Johnson.