segregation

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/1/2020
  

  White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity

  At an earlier point in American history, some Christian theologians went so far as to argue that the enslavement of human beings was justifiable from a biblical point of view.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  6/30/2020
  

  Princeton University Removes Woodrow Wilson From School Name (Audio)

  Julian Zelizer discusses Princeton's decision to rename its school of Public Policy. 

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• SOURCE: WTOP
  6/28/2020
  

  Parents, Historians Urge DC’s Mayor Bowser To Initiate Wilson High Name Change

  Honoring a person like Wilson sends a poor message when in general, society should be honoring the ideals of diversity, respect, equality and inclusion said Judith Ingram, co-founder of the D.C. History and Justice Collective.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  6/27/2020
  

  ‘An Inappropriate Namesake’: Princeton Strips Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Public-Policy School

  Princeton's decision is all the more notable for how recently the university had resisted this precise step. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  6/26/2020
  

  My Confederate Past

  by Stuart Stevens

  I ask myself now why did it take so long for me to realize what it might be like for nearly 40 percent of my state to go to school and work under a flag that represented a cause dedicated to the right to own their ancestors? 

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• SOURCE: KCRW
  6/24/2020
  

  Who Owns History? New Book Reconsiders San Gabriel Valley’s Pioneer Past

  The local history project East of East seeks to amplify the histories of people of color in El Monte, CA.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  6/24/2020
  

  Want to Tear Down Insidious Monuments to Racism and Segregation? Bulldoze L.A. Freeways

  Los Angeles historian Gilbert Estrada's work shows how planners in the city used federal highway funding to disrupt multiracial communities and serve whites-only suburban developments, increasing segregation and inequality in the region. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/20/2020
  

  To Avoid Integration, Americans Built Barricades in Urban Space

  Urban inequality didn’t happen by accident.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/21/2020
  

  Monmouth University to Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Building

  Historians, including some at Monmouth, have said that Wilson believed in white supremacy and advanced policies to support his racist worldview.

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• SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
  6/14/2020
  

  Edith White, World War II ‘Code Girl’ and Norfolk Academy Librarian who Fought Massive Resistance, Dies at 96

  Edith White was part of a team of women who served the US Navy as codebreakers, and fought for democratic values like integrated schools after the war's end. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/11/2020
  

  Richmond’s Confederate Monuments Were Used to Sell a Segregated Neighborhood

  by Kevin M. Levin

  The Confederate monuments dedicated throughout the South from 1880 to 1930 helped do the work of justifying segregation and relegating African Americans to second-class status. Monument Avenue was unique in this regard as part of a speculative real estate development (for whites only, naturally).

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/10/2020
  

  The Template for Using White Privilege to Fight Racism

  by Nancy C. Unger

  Whiteness enables allies in this struggle to push in ways that African Americans sometimes cannot without disproportionate risk. That was Belle La Follette’s secret — she used white privilege to fight against it.

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• SOURCE: WCRB
  6/8/2020
  

  Little Rock Nine Members Question How Far We've Come 63 Years After Broking Racial Barriers

  Daily images of police pushing back protesters with excessive force have also resulted in a surge of traumatic memories for some members of the Little Rock Nine.

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• SOURCE: ABC-7 Chicago
  6/7/2020
  

  Northwestern Historian Kevin Boyle Discusses History of Protests (Video)

  "It's the most profoundly American of acts, to protest peacefully in this nation," Boyle said.

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• SOURCE: New Orleans Public Radio
  6/1/2020
  

  Q&A: Historian Andrew Kahrl On The Segregation History Of Lincoln Beach And Plans To Reopen It

  The long-shuttered African American beach was created to preserve segregation in New Orleans.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  5/30/2020
  

  It's Been Five Decades Since 1968, and Things are Somehow Worse

  by Julian Zelizer

  For those of us who study the 1960s or lived through those troubled times, it's hard to imagine things could be worse. But they are. 

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• SOURCE: American Civil Liberties Union
  5/26/2020
  

  Reparations – Has the Time Finally Come?

  ACLU Senior Policy Analyst Nkechi Taifa discusses the history of the movement for African American reparations and how it has moved from the radical fringe to mainstream debate.

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• SOURCE: BET
  5/19/2020
  

  A New Documentary On Opera Singer Marian Anderson Is Coming To PBS

  A new PBS documentary will commemorate singer Marian Anderson's voice and her activism.

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• SOURCE: Southern Poverty Law Center
  5/16/2020
  

  66 years after Brown v. Board, Schools Across the South are Still Separate and Unequal

  The SPLC contends that school funding programs, including vouchers and charter schools, help to preserve and extend racial segregation in the South. 

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• SOURCE: Chicago Teachers Union
  5/19/2020
  

  Zoom Webinar: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Discusses "Race for Profit," May 19, 4:30 PM CDT

  The award-winning historian and public speaker will discuss the relationship between housing policy and racial inequality in the United States