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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/24/2023
Some Escaped Slavery Without Escaping the South
by Viola Franziska Müller
The majority of people escaping slavery before Emancipation never crossed the Mason-Dixon line, finding a measure of freedom in southern cities.
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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: 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: Daily Beast
1/19/2023
Florida's Ban on AP African American Studies Class is Authoritarian
by Jeremy C. Young
The decision is "bad for free speech and for educational practice, and it's especially worrisome for Florida high school students. When politicians go to war with teachers, students always lose."
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/13/2023
Three Novels Rooted in Forgotten Black Histories
Novels by Kai Thomas, Jamila Minnicks, and Nyani Nkrumah tell stories of Black life at the Canadian end of the Underground Railroad, an all-Black town in 1950s Alabama, and in post-Civil Rights Mississippi.
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SOURCE: 19th News
1/12/2023
Anastasia Curwood on New Shirley Chisholm Bio
By framing Chisholm as a person with a life history, Curwood elevates knowledge of the New York congresswoman from a "first major party candidate" to a political theorist and visionary.
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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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1/15/2023
Teach the History Behind "Emancipation" with the Primary Sources
by Alan J. Singer
Antoine Fuqua and Will Smith's "Emancipation" has rediscovered the life of an enslaved man variously called Peter or Gordon, who had been made famous through an 1863 photograph. Here's how history teachers can use the primary records of his life to accompany the film.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/10/2023
I Grew Up in a Black Liberationist Commune
From 1973 to the early 2000s, the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church operated a communal home in a Detroit apartment building, dedicated to the collective project of replacing received notions of Black inferiority with a sense of possibility.
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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: Black Perspectives
1/12/2023
The Black Widows' Struggle for Civil War Pensions
by Hilary Green
Black women's struggles to claim pensions earned by their late husbands' service in the Union Army reflected the incomplete realization of freedom after emancipation and the intrusive controls the pension system and growing administrative state placed on Black families.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/12/2023
Why Won't Her College Honor "Queen of Basketball" by Renaming its Arena?
Luisa Harris didn't just lead the Delta State Lady Statesmen to three consecutive championships in the early 1970s. She helped integrate the basketball program and the college. Is that the reason why her name and image are so conspicuously absent today?
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SOURCE: Pop Matters
1/11/2023
The Unlikely Story of the 1960s Revival of Delta Blues Giant Son House
After shifts in African American musical styles, the Great Depression and the Great Migration consigned him to obscurity, Son House recorded live music in the 1960s.
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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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1/8/2023
The Legacy of Charlene Mitchell: The First Black Woman Presidential Candidate
by Alyssa Spinosa and Adam Arenson
Although Charlene Mitchell's candidacy with the Communist Party gained few votes, her campaign reflected an effort to advance a critique of capitalism that addressed the American context of racial inequality and oppression.
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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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SOURCE: Oxford American
12/13/2022
Exiting/In
by Francesca T. Royster
A family and community history in Black Nashville puts the rise of "Music Row" in the context of urban renewal projects that destroyed African American communities and institutions, and the unacknowledged Black presence in country music.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/19/2022
Albion Tourgée's Forgotten Proposal for Power to the People
by Brook Thomas
The Black Republican activist hoped to draft a Reconstruction constitution for North Carolina that vested power in the people, which might have prevented the potential mischief that could be unleashed by Supreme Court cases that threaten to empower state legislatures to thwart democracy.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/16/2022
Stephen Shames's Photos Document the Lives and Activism of Black Panther Party Women
As a college student, Shames built trust with the members of the BPP and documented their activism. Now, working with former member Ericka Huggins, a book of those photos preserves the history.
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SOURCE: NBC News
12/10/2022
Pioneering Black Feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes Dies at 84
Along with cofounding Ms. Magazine, she was a leader in connecting women's liberation to social welfare policies, child services, and domestic violence.
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