African American history

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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. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/20/2020
  

  These Black Female Soldiers Brought Order to Chaos and Delivered a Blow Against Inequality

  The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the Six Triple Eight, was the only all-Black Women's Army Corps unit to serve in Europe during World War II.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/18/2020
  

  The World John Lewis Helped Create

  Black leaders pause to reflect on the civil-rights icon and representative from Georgia, who spent decades calling for activism and “good trouble.”

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• SOURCE: Rice Thresher
  7/19/2020
  

  Reginald Moore, Sugar Land 95 Activist and “a People’s Historian,” Leaves Behind a Legacy of Endurance

  Armed with a voice and passion both larger than life, Moore began a community’s crusade to demand historical recognition from city officials, and pioneered a new chapter in Texas history. Rice University Professor Caleb McDaniel says "it's worth stressing what he brought to Rice" by partering with the university to develop an archive of his efforts to memorialize the convict-lease system.

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• 7/19/2020
  

  The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Black Action Movement and the Way Forward

  by Martin Halpern

  Activists in today’s struggles against institutionalized racism and for black lives can benefit from studying a local victory of fifty years ago. In the spring of 1970, the Black Action Movement (BAM) at the University of Michigan led a thirteen-day strike that won a commitment to change by the university administration.

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• 7/19/2020
  

  "No Longer Just Lincoln and a Slave": Consider Mary McLeod Bethune's Lincoln Park Statue

  by Jenny Woodley

  Thinking of the Mary McLeod Bethune memorial in Washington's Lincoln Park in tandem with the controversial Emancipation memorial suggests ways in which commemorative spaces can operate as places of dialogue.