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6/5/2022

Is the Republican Party Willing to Purge its Extremists?

by Jeff Kolnick

Beginning in the 1920s, the Democratic Party began the long, difficult, and politically costly process of dissociation from white supremacy. Do today's Republicans who claim to reject extremism have the courage to do the same?

6/5/2022

The Dobbs Decision Punctures the Supreme Court's Sacred Mythology

by Alan J. Singer

The Supreme Court uses a myth of its own impartiality to justify a legacy of judicial review that is tainted by its service to slavery and Jim Crow.

SOURCE: Codastory
3/30/2022

Germany's Racial Reckoning Offers Warnings for US

"Seen from an American perspective, Germany is often portrayed as the wise and capable professor of remembrance; the U.S its difficult student."

SOURCE: Oxford American
3/22/2022

Questing for the Past

by Katherine Churchill

A nameplate in an 1864 edition of Gawain and the Green Knight led the author to discover the connections between a mythic medieval past and the Lost Cause ideology of Jim Crow Virginia.

SOURCE: PBS News Hour
3/19/2022

Will Alabama Expunge White Supremacist Language that Remains in its Constitution?

Alabama's 1901 constitution was written expressly to enshrine white supremacy. Voters will have the chance to approve changes to its language by a ballot referendum this fall.

SOURCE: AL.com
1/16/2022

Ambushed in Eufaula: Alabama's Forgotten Racist Massacre

In 1874 a group of Black Republicans who came to the town of Eufaula to vote were ambushed by white mobs, part of the Democratic overthrow of Reconstruction and a step toward reestablishing white supremacy in the state.

SOURCE: AL.com
1/12/2022

Alabama's Capitol is a Crime Scene, with a 120 Year Coverup

The Alabama Capitol in Montgomery was the first seat of the Confederate government and the place where white Democrats ratified a Jim Crow constitution in 1901. You'd learn little of this by touring the museum-like building.

SOURCE: MSNBC
1/5/2022

Homer Plessy's Posthumous Pardon Finally Recognizes His Heroism

by Keisha N. Blain

"The decision to pardon Plessy and finally clear his record are the culmination of efforts by Keith Plessy, the great-great-grandson of Homer Plessy’s cousin, and Phoebe Ferguson, the great-great-granddaughter of John H. Ferguson, the Louisiana judge who upheld the state's Separate Car Act."

SOURCE: New York Times
12/5/2021

Ghosts of Mississippi

by Charles M. Blow

The Times columnist argues that the oral arguments in the SCOTUS abortion case recall the bitter history of disenfranchisement in Mississippi, and the subsequent decades when rights were stripped away from Mississippians without democratic process.

SOURCE: New York Times
11/12/2021

Louisiana Governor to Decide Posthumous Pardon for Homer Plessy

Louisiana's Avery C. Alexander Act, named for a longtime state House member, calls for pardoning individuals who were convicted of violating laws establishing segregation or discrimination, but has seldom been invoked to do so.

SOURCE: KUT
10/28/2021

Structural Racism Hinders Efforts to Preserve History of Texas "Freedom Colonies"

Dr. Andrea Roberts of the Texas Freedom Colonies Project says that the history of Black settlements during Reconstruction and Jim Crow is hindered by rules about what sites qualify as "historic."

SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
9/1/2021

Journalist William Huie Concealed Lynchers In Emmett Till Case And Got Away With It

The commonly-know story of Emmett Till's lynching has long been distorted because a journalist who reported the accounts of two acquitted killers had written out other conspirators from the story for legal reasons.

SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
9/1/2021

The Last House in Historic Rosewood, Florida May Become a Museum

“It’s a place that needs to be remembered,” said Lizzie Jenkins, 82, whose aunt escaped the massacre. “That house is part of who I am.”

SOURCE: Washington Post
8/28/2021

The "Leesburg Stockade Girls" Locked Up in Georgia in 1963

15 girls aged 12-15 were locked up in appalling conditions, for 45 days or more, and often without their families' knowledge, in southwest Georgia in 1936. This is their story.

SOURCE: The Metropole
8/19/2021

Off Main Street: Black Space, Agency, And Community Building In The Jim Crow South

by Kirin Makker

Nostalgic references to "Main Street" are common today, but conceal the racially exclusionary nature of both business ownership and consumption in American history.

SOURCE: New York Times
8/16/2021

The Complicated History of One Mississippi Restaurant

Booker Wright, a Black waiter, shocked the community of Greenwood by shedding his genial tableside manner to tell a documentary crew about the burdens of racial subordination. After the film aired, he was assaulted by a police officer and his bar was vandalized.

SOURCE: CNN
8/1/2021

Are the Democrats About to Repeat Mistakes that Led to Jim Crow?

If Democrats won't go all out to protect the franchise for their most loyal constituencies, how can they expect to govern? The history of the Jim Crow south suggests they won't, according to historian Richard White.

SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
7/28/2021

Before the Anti-CRT Activists, there were White Citizens’ Councils

by David A. Love

"Employing the techniques of the White Citizens’ Council, a 21st-century White resistance movement threatens to turn back the clock on civil rights and racial justice and create a new future built on erasing the past."

SOURCE: New York Times
7/10/2021

How White Newspapers Helped Keep Down Black America

White-owned newspapers – northern, southern, midwestern or western – frequently inflamed racial tensions and contributed to racist political violence and disenfranchisement.

SOURCE: Washington Post
6/14/2021

Rand Paul Offers an Accidentally Useful Jim Crow Analogy in Rationalizing His Party’s Illiberal Shift

Rand Paul's comments that Jim Crow laws were a product of democracy reveals the degree to which he and the Republican Party seek to justify their antidemocratic approach to election law.