African American history

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/17/19
  

  A white mob attacked Elijah Cummings for integrating a swimming pool. He was 11.

  by Gillian Brockell

  The Maryland congressman, who died Thursday, had a scar on his face for the rest of his life.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/12/19
  

  It was the nation’s largest auction of enslaved people. Now, a search for descendants of the ‘weeping time.’

  Historians Henry Louis Gates Jr. and James Swanson are writing a new account of the notorious 1859 auction of 429 slaves and searching for descendants.

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• SOURCE: AP
  10/5/19
  

  America’s last slave ship could offer a case for reparations

  The history of Meaher and the slave ship Clotilda may offer one of the more clear-cut cases for slavery reparations, with identifiable perpetrators and victims.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/2/19
  

  Black Workers and Consumers in the Long Civil Rights Movement

  by Aimee Loiselle

  Historian Aimee Loiselle discusses Traci Parker's new book Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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• SOURCE: African American Intellectual History Society
  9/30/19
  

  Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics: An Interview with Benjamin Talton

  by Keisha N. Blain

  AAIHS Presdient Keisha N. Blain interviews Benjamin Talton, an associate Professor of History at Temple University, about his new book.  

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  September 30, 2019
  

  The Forgotten History of America’s Worst Racial Massacre

  by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff

  Hundreds of black citizens were killed in Elaine, Arkansas, a century ago this week.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  9/20/19
  

  Enslaved Couples Faced Wrenching Separations, or Even Choosing Family Over Freedom

  by Tera W. Hunter

  Loved ones could be sold away at any time. Here's how married couples coped.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  9/20/19
  

  The Long History of American Slavery Reparations

  by Manisha Sinha

  From the colonial era to today, the bitter legacy of bondage and racial oppression has sparked demands for compensation, with some successes and many broken promises.

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  8/24/19
  

  Bayard Rustin: Prophet Of Freedom, Justice, And Humanity

  by Stephen G. Hall

  Rustin’s work combined a passion for social justice with a firm commitment to LGBTQ and human rights.

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• 8/28/19
  

  The Problem with The Rosa Parks Barbie

  by Andrea S. Johnson

  Rosa Parks wasn't just a tired seamstress with aching feet. The true story of Rosa Parks that historians have worked hard to reconstruct is continually lost in public consumption.

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• SOURCE: Diverse Education
  8/23/19
  

  Historian Carl Suddler's New Book Probes Black Youth, Criminal Justice

  Dr. Carl Suddler, an assistant professor of history at Emory University, puts the intersection of race, gender, youth and incarceration under a searing spotlight in his new book, Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/24/19
  

  Horace Pippin: From War to Peace Exhibit Showcases American History Through the Art of a Black WWI Soldier

  Horace Pippin was a self-taught artist out of necessity, as the society in which he lived had shut most of its doors on him.

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• SOURCE: 13 News
  8/24/19
  

  Virginia Gov. Northam establishes Commission on African American history education

  Governor Northam signed an executive order establishing the Commission on African American History Education on Saturday, August 24.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/18/19
  

  A rural town confronts its buried history of mass killings of black Americans

  100 years after hundreds of African Americans were reportedly killed in Elaine, Arkansas, a memorial is set to bring details of the tragedy to light.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 8/20/19
  

  The Great Land Robbery

  by Vann R. Newkirk II

  A war waged by deed of title has dispossessed 98 percent of black agricultural landowners in America.

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• 8/18/19
  

  The Civil War and the Black West

  by William Loren Katz

  The integral role people of color played in winning the Civil War. 

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• 8/18/19
  

  Bearing Human Cargo: 400 Years Since the Arrival of the First African Slaves in the American Colonies

  by Albinko Hasic

  Although 1619 remains a historic marker, overemphasizing the date or dismissing the long and complicated history of slavery in the Americas would be a mistake.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/25/19
  

  Ebony’s Photo Archive Goes for $30 Million, for Future in Public View

  The vast photo archive of Ebony and Jet magazines has been sold to a group of four major foundations with a promise that it will be available to the public.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/22/19
  

  Memes and Memory: How Anthony Johnson, a Captive African, Became a Right-wing Talking Point

  by Tyler Parry

  Memes are perfect for establishing “Myth-stories,” as they do not ask readers to evaluate the sources and are often shared prolifically.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/16/19
  

  Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here’s Why That Never Happened.

  For a brief moment, the civil rights movement and the space race came together.