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SOURCE: LitHub
Zachary Shore: the Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue in WWII
Zachary Shore discusses the contrasting decisions to drop atomic bombs on Japan and rebuild Germany.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/29/2023
100 Years After Rosewood, Just One House Remains
The home of John Wright, a white merchant who helped shelter Black residents from mob violence, is all that remains of the former town of Rosewood.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
1/30/2023
Regina Twala's Stolen Life Work Highlights Colonialism Inside the Historical Profession
by Joel Cabrita
Regina Twala performed the intellectual labor that supported another intellectual's published work on African religious practices; her obscurity was the foundation of his fame.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/24/2023
Erika Lee and Carol Anderson on Myths and Realities of Race in American History
"The problem we have in the United States is that we use these myths as a way to diminish the humanity and the citizenship of large sectors of our population and to then craft policies based on myths."
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SOURCE: Inquest
1/24/2023
Family Histories where Black Power Met Police Power
by Dan Berger
Fighting back against mass incarceration today means learning from the stories of Black Power activists who fought against the expansion of police power and surveillance since the 1960s.
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SOURCE: Substack
1/23/2023
Banished Podcast: Sunshine State's Descent Into Darkness
by Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
Two historian podcasters evaluate the effort to politicize the history curriculum in Florida's K-12 schools and public colleges.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
1/17/2023
Kidada Williams on The Reconstruction that Wasn't
In the new "I Saw Death Coming," Williams describes a "shadow Confederacy" that refused to cede freedom or dignity to African Americans who often lived far from the reach of a federal government that was unreliably committed to their protection.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/21/2023
Marvin Dunn: Florida Prof Defies New Laws to "Teach the Truth"
The Professor Emeritus at Florida International University says that he can't teach about the history of racist terrorism in the state without registering disgust for the actions of lynch mobs or offering clarity about the political purposes of the violence.
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SOURCE: Al Jazeera
1/15/2023
Critical Race Theory? Critical Race Facts
by Donald Earl Collins
Attacks on CRT and other scholarly investigations of inequality are premised on the idea that systemic inequality is fake. The evidence is in, and this is indefensible as a question of fact.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/18/2023
DeSantis Merging Fear of Lessons on Race and Sexuality with Attacks on Public Education
by Jonathan Feingold
Ron DeSantis's General Counsel defined "woke" as “the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.” The governor's education agenda is neatly summed up by this statement, and it's spreading nationwide.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/19/2023
The Romance of the Highway Obscures Harm to Communities of Color
by Ryan Reft
Secretary Pete Buttigieg's comments that interstate construction entrenched racial segregation were denounced as "woke" by critics. But history shows that highway planners knew that such consequences were likely to ensue, and proceeded anyway.
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1/22/2023
Why CRT Belongs in the Classroom, and How to Do It Right
by Stacie Brensilver Berman, Robert Cohen, and Ryan Mills
"If classroom realities matter at all to those governors and state legislators who imposed CRT bans on schools, they ought to be embarrassed at having barred students in their states from the kind of thought provoking teaching we witnessed in this project."
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SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
1/16/2023
The Audacious Co-Optation of Dr. King
"No serious person thinks Dr. King would not want us to interrogate how and why inequity became baked into our systems and how to fix those systems so they don’t keep replicating themselves."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/15/2023
Two Black GI's Deaths Show the Racism in the WWII Military
Allen Leftridge and Frank Glenn were shot and killed by military police for asking a French Red Cross worker for donuts. The aftermath showed the administrative and bureaucratic racism of the military supported and protected individual prejudice in the ranks.
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SOURCE: CNN
1/12/2023
100 Years Later, Rosewood Descendants Tell Family Stories of Survival
“The violence that destroyed a Black community, destroyed families, it prevented families from passing on their legacy and property to their kids and their grandkids,” said Maxine Jones, a historian at Florida State University who was the lead researcher on the Rosewood reparations case.
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SOURCE: Inquest
1/10/2023
A History of Violence in the US/Mexico Borderlands
by Brian Behnken
Policing both the border and Mexican American communities in the Southwest has always been entangled with white supremacist violence, the author argues in a new book.
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SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
1/11/2023
Mississippi AG: We Purged "Taint" of Racism from Felon Disenfranchisement Law in 1968
Attorney General Janet Fitch insisted that the Supreme Court had no cause to review the state's law disenfranchising certain felons. She acknowledged the explicit racist intent embedded in the statute but insisted that "taint" had been removed.
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SOURCE: WUFT
1/9/2022
At Rosewood's 100th Anniversary, Black Residents and Descendants Return
Commemoration of the white vigilante violence and arson against the town of Rosewood prompted the wry observation that the ceremonies brought more Black people to the town than had been there since the events of January 1923.
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SOURCE: Popular Information
1/9/2023
Students of Teacher Behind 150+ Book Ban Requests Detail History of Racism, Homophobia
by Judd Legum
The classroom conduct and public social media statements of a Florida teacher who is exercising the provisions of new legislation to ban books presenting Black perspectives on racism show that the law can easily be hijacked by motivated bigots.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
1/4/2023
How History Forgot the Rosewood Killings
"In January 1923, Rosewood was wiped off the map by a week of mob violence, then erased from history by people who didn’t want to talk about what had happened to the town’s primarily Black residents."
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