segregation

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• SOURCE: D.C. Policy Center
  4/23/19
  

  Sarah Jane Shoenfeld on Mapping segregation in D.C.

  For the past several years, Mapping Segregation in Washington DC has been documenting the historic role of real estate developers, citizens associations (white homeowner groups), and the courts in segregating the city.

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• SOURCE: Narratively.com
  Accessed 3/4/19
  

  The Black Pastor Whose “Turban Trick” Exposed American Racism

  by Paul Kramer and Ashanti Forston

  Rev. Routté bluffed his way into first-class treatment in the Jim Crow-era south — unmasking the ridiculous hypocrisy of segregation.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/22/19
  

  These Photos of a Segregated U.S. Navy Unit Were Lost for Decades. They Still Have a Story to Tell

  Miller created deeply empathetic images with a understated, yet unmistakable anti-racist intent.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/20/19
  

  The Jim Crow Car

  The North, the South and the forgotten origins of racial separation.

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  2/18/19
  

  Why Are We Still Segregating Black History in February?

  by Christina Proenza-Coles

  Even before the U.S. was a nation, African-Americans played crucial roles in nearly every stage of history in the new world. ‘Honoring’ that history in one month is a travesty.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/12/19
  

  Secrets of 1946 Mass Lynching Could Be Revealed After Court Ruling

  On Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, affirmed a lower court’s ruling that had ordered the release of the grand jury transcripts from 1946.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/11/19
  

  The Hidden Segregation of Military Executions During the Civil Rights Movement

  How did the United States Army, during the early years of the civil rights movement, deal with the crucible issues of race and capital punishment?

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• SOURCE: NPR
  2/7/19
  

  A Complicated Racial History Underpins Politics In Virginia

  The controversies rocking Richmond are a reminder of the complicated racial history that underpins Virginia politics.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/6/19
  

  Virginia is the birthplace of American slavery and segregation — and it still can’t escape that legacy

  Four hundred years after the first enslaved Africans were brought to the United States, the commonwealth reckons with the consequences of the system it created.

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• SOURCE: Education Week
  1/22/19
  

  In Eight States, Public Schools Are Named for Segregationists

  Schools and other public structures that memorialize leaders of the Confederacy have gained intense attention and generated fierce arguments recently.

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• SOURCE: Reason
  Accessed 1/29/19
  

  Washington Forced Segregation on the Nation

  It's time to remedy the effects of that terrible policy. 

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  Accessed 1/29/19
  

  The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined White Supremacy in Law

  How Plessy v. Ferguson shaped the history of racial discrimination in America.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/25/19
  

  The Green Book’s Black History

  by Brent Staples

  Lessons from the Jim Crow-era travel guide for African-American elites.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/22/19
  

  ‘Green Book’: A movie evokes the crucial guide for black travelers during segregation

  What was the Green Book? For African Americans, its listings could mean the difference between life and death.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/18/19
  

  'I Gave Up Hope': As Girls, They Were Jailed In Squalor For Protesting Segregation

  The day Martin Luther King Jr. gave his landmark "I Have a Dream" speech in August 1963, a lesser known moment in civil rights history was unfolding in southern Georgia.

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• SOURCE: Dissent Magazine
  10-2-18 (accessed)
  

  How Real Estate Segregated America

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8/29/18
  

  Replace Richard Russell’s Name With McCain’s? Senate Debates a Segregationist’s Legacy

  History enters the debate over renaming the Russell Senate Office Building.

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• SOURCE: Medium
  3/8/18
  

  From Segregation to Gentrification

  by Mike Green

  Lessons from Seattle and Detroit: How city policies and NIMBYism lead to unimpeded market forces displacing poor people of color.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  5-8-17
  

  Trump Administration Cites Segregation-Era Ruling To Defend Its Travel Ban

  In 1971, the Supreme Court decided that courts shouldn’t investigate the motivations of officials who closed public pools rather than integrate them.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  5-3-17
  

  Why More Historians Are Embracing the Amicus Brief

  "To be a legal advocate is freeing," says Tomiko Brown-Nagin, a history professor at Harvard.