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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/14/2023
The Local Roots of Marjorie Taylor Greene's "National Divorce" Rhetoric
by Michan Connor
To understand her embrace of secessionist rhetoric, don't look to the Civil War; look to the political conflict that erupted in Atlanta's suburbs in the 1990s and 2000s.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/21/2023
Georgia Grand Jury to Recommend Indictments in Trump Effort to Overturn Vote
The grand jury forewoman suggested that the identities of the parties recommended for indictment were "not rocket science" and that no one will be surprised when the names are revealed.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/5/2022
The Racist Origins of Georgia's Runoff System
by Steven F. Lawson
Runoff elections were installed in Georgia to ensure that Black voters could not elect their preferred candidates, allowing white voters a second chance to consolidate support around white candidates.
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SOURCE: Facing South
11/15/2022
From the Archives: Bob Maurer on Charles Sherrod and New Communities Farm
Nearly 50 years ago, activist Robert Maurer reported on the successes and challenges of a Georgia agricultural cooperative conceived as a step toward securing Black economic empowerment in the post-civil rights South.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/13/2022
Charles Sherrod: An Unheralded Giant of the Civil Rights Struggle
by Ansley L. Quiros
"Charles Sherrod is the most important civil rights figure you've never heard of"--fighting for six decades in southwest Georgia, persevering through incremental gains after the publicity of the Albany Movement faded.
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SOURCE: Politico
8/5/2022
After Winning as An Activist Preacher, Can Warnock Win Again as an Effective Pragmatist?
After winning a close special election, Raphael Warnock needs to find a way to notch small victories in a nearly deadlocked Senate as he seeks election to a full term.
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SOURCE: MSNBC
6/25/2022
Trump's Incitement Against Shaye Moss over the Georgia Vote Count Carries on a Dark American Tradition
by Tera W. Hunter
Whether for casting ballots or counting them, Trump was quick to blame Black Americans for his defeat, carrying on an ignominious tradition of casting Black political participation as illegitimate and dangerous.
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SOURCE: Jerusalem Post
8/10/2008
Read Historical Discussion of Putin's Imperial Ambitions from 2008
by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
Russian incursions into Georgia in 2008 gave strong clues to the playbook for the invasion of Ukraine and efforts to justify it.
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SOURCE: WBUR
1/11/2021
Julian Zelizer Joins "Here and Now" to Discuss Biden Voting Rights Push
How will Biden deliver a planned speech on voting rights under the shadow of the filibuster? Will it sway reluctant Democrats like Manchin and Sinema?
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SOURCE: MSNBC
11/18/2021
Black Clergy's Presence at Trial of Arbery's Killers is Nothing Unusual
by Keisha N. Blain
Black clergy have always taken leadership in challenges to racist violence; the trial judge has no good reason to bar their attendance.
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11/7/2021
Citizen's Arrest Law at Center of Trial of Arbery's Killers Originated in Slavery
by Alan J. Singer
The three men on trial for killing Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia are counting on a jury to accept their claim that they were executing a citizen's arrest on Arbery. Georgia's citizen's arrest law, since repealed, shares in the racist history of similar laws across the nation.
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SOURCE: Philadelphia Tribune
11/1/2021
African American Museum in Georgia Honors Forgotten History
"It all goes back to when I was a child growing up in White Plains," said Mamie Hillman, executive director of the museum. "I always wanted to know — how did I enter into history?"
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/18/2021
My University's Policies Undermined the Lessons I Was Trained to Teach, so I Quit
by Cornelia Lambert
"I could use our own university system as a case study in how political power often wins out over scientific knowledge. This would be a powerful lesson, one students would be unlikely to forget. But did I want to be part of that?"
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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.
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SOURCE: Savannah Morning News
8/16/2021
The Odd Place of one Savannah Neighborhood in the History of Redlining
by Todd Michney
The history of the Cuyler-Brownville area shows that HOLC risk assessments and Federal lending practices were responsive to local banks' perception of lending risk and desire for profit, factors which resulted in the rarity of an African American community retaining a "green" rating.
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SOURCE: Public Books
Under Columbus, Georgia: What Folklore Erases
by Bryan Banks
Subterranean tunnels under Columbus, Georgia have been repurposed as part of dramatic stories of crime, emancipation, and war, tales which obscure the more prosaic and violent aspects of the town's history.
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SOURCE: New York Times
7/4/2021
Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends?
"For almost three years now, with the fervor of the newly converted, Ms. Marshall has been on a quest that from the outside may seem quixotic and even naïve. She is diving into her family’s past and trying to chip away at racism in the Deep South, where every white family with roots here benefited from slavery and almost every Black family had enslaved ancestors."
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/13/2021
Hank Aaron’s Name Will Replace a Confederate General’s on an Atlanta School
“Names do matter,” Jason F. Esteves, Atlanta’s school board chairman, said at Monday’s meeting.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/6/2021
If It’s Not Jim Crow, What Is It?
by Jamelle Bouie
NYT Columnist Jamelle Bouie relies on the historical writing of J. Morgan Kousser, who showed that disenfranchisement after 1877 affected African American and poor white southerners, was implemented through color-blind means, and had partisan, rather than simply racial, goals. But it was still Jim Crow, and the comparison to Georgia's new law is fair and valid.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/31/2021
The Painful History of the Georgia Voting Law
by Jason Morgan Ward
The new wave of vote suppression bills, like the one in Georgia, reflect a less obvious but important aspect of Jim Crow law: the use of superficially race-neutral language to keep specific groups from voting. The danger is that courts today will similarly fail to see these bills for what they are.
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