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Woodrow Wilson Should Stay Canceled
The 28th President of the United States enabled segregation and vile treatment of Black federal workers. He doesn’t deserve an image rehabilitation.
by
Blair L. M. Kelley
via
The Daily Beast
on
February 6, 2024
The African Diplomats Who Protested Segregation in the U.S.
Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy publicly apologized after restaurants refused to serve Black representatives of newly independent nations.
by
Francine Uenuma
via
Smithsonian
on
February 24, 2023
Good Blood, Bad Policy: The Red Cross and Jim Crow
A 1940s Red Cross rule, which racially segregated blood, propped up notions of racial difference and Black inferiority.
by
Melba Newsome
via
UnDark
on
January 18, 2023
When Panama Came to Brooklyn
“For those Afro-Caribbean Panamanian who had lived through Panama’s Canal Zone apartheid, Brooklyn segregation probably came as no surprise.”
by
Kaysha Corinealdi
via
Public Books
on
November 30, 2022
Plessy v. Ferguson at 125
One hundred and twenty five years after the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, there are still lessons to be gleaned from the case.
by
Kenneth Mack
,
Rachel Reed
via
Harvard Law Bulletin
on
May 19, 2021
What It Was Like to Fly as a Black Traveler in the Jim Crow Era
Airlines sometimes bumped Black passengers off of flights to make room for white travelers, even during refueling stops.
by
Mia Bay
via
Condé Nast Traveler
on
March 23, 2021
Historian Mia Bay on ‘Traveling Black’
Bay’s new book explores the intertwined history of travel segregation and African American struggles for freedom of movement.
by
Kristen De Groot
,
Mia Bay
via
Penn Today
on
February 9, 2021
The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined White Supremacy in Law
How Plessy v. Ferguson shaped the history of racial discrimination in America.
by
Louis Menand
via
The New Yorker
on
February 4, 2019
The Rope: The Forgotten History of Segregated Rock & Roll Concerts
The Platters, the Flamingos, and other pioneering performers share stories of divided audiences and harrowing violence.
by
Steve Knopper
via
Rolling Stone
on
November 16, 2017
The Confederate Flag Largely Disappeared after the Civil War
The fight against civil rights brought it back.
by
Logan Strother
,
Thomas Ogorzalek
,
Spencer Piston
via
Washington Post
on
June 12, 2017
The Roots of Segregation
"The Color of Law" offers an indicting critique of the progressive agenda.
by
Carl Paulus
via
The American Conservative
on
May 5, 2017
Woodrow Wilson Was Extremely Racist — Even By the Standards of His Time
He called black people "an ignorant and inferior race," and it gets worse.
by
Dylan Matthews
via
Vox
on
November 20, 2015
Remembering President Wilson's Purge of Black Federal Workers
Woodrow Wilson arrived at the White House determined to eliminate the gains African-Americans made during Reconstruction.
by
Josh Marshall
via
Talking Points Memo
on
June 26, 2015
Remembering Malcolm X: Rare Interviews and Audio
On the religion, segregation, the civil rights movement, violence, and hypocrisy.
by
Malcolm X
,
Eleanor Fischer
,
Stephen Nessen
via
WNYC
on
February 4, 2015
The Case for Reparations
Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
by
Ta-Nehisi Coates
via
The Atlantic
on
June 23, 2014
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Beyond the Battlefield: Double V and Black Americans’ Fight for Equality
A civil rights initiative during World War II known as the Double V campaign advocated for dual victories: over fascism abroad, and racial injustice in the U.S.
via
Retro Report
on
March 7, 2024
“Freedom on My Mind”: A Symphony of Voices for Civil Rights
This 1994 documentary brings the passions and agonies of Mississippi’s voter-registration drive into the present tense.
by
Richard Brody
via
The New Yorker
on
February 22, 2024
Black Civil War Veterans Remain Segregated Even in Death
Denied burial alongside Union soldiers killed during the Battle of Gettysburg, the 30 or so men were instead buried in the all-Black Lincoln Cemetery.
by
Kellie B. Gormly
via
Smithsonian
on
February 21, 2024
Martin Luther King, Critical Race Theorist
Republicans may claim otherwise, but the civil rights hero was no color-blind conservative.
by
Sam Hoadley-Brill
via
The Nation
on
January 15, 2024
What It Was Like to Be a Black Patient in a Jim Crow Asylum?
In March 1911, the segregated Crownsville asylum opened outside Baltimore, Maryland, admitting only Black patients.
by
Julia Métraux
,
Antonia Hylton
via
Mother Jones
on
January 10, 2024
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