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The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part III

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.
by Tanner Colby via Slate on February 27, 2014
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Fierce Urgency of Now

Exploring the origins and impacts of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," on that event's 50th anniversary.
via BackStory on August 23, 2013

The Court & the Right to Vote: A Dissent

How the Supreme Court got it wrong.
by John Paul Stevens via New York Review of Books on August 15, 2013

Mississippi: A Historian Challenges H.L. Mencken

Mississippi may be the nation’s most religious state, but it is also far more complex and dynamic than many commentators admit.
by Alison de Lima Greene via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on October 19, 2012

Don’t Despair About the Supreme Court

In 2005, Howard Zinn explained why it was naive to depend on the Court to defend the rights of marginalized Americans.
by Howard Zinn via The Progressive on October 21, 2005
Caricature of Martin Luther King's head

The House of the Prophet

Martin Luther King Jr. was the galvanizing voice of the civil rights struggle, an uncompromising, complicated figure who soared in the pulpit.
by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on April 11, 2002
Ticket for Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral service at Morehouse College, April 9, 1968.

The Shot That Echoes Still

James Baldwin's dispatch from MLK's funeral foreshadowed an America we may never escape.
by James Baldwin, Michael Eric Dyson via Esquire on April 4, 1972
Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Call For a Poor People’s Campaign

In early 1968, the activist planned a massive protest in the nation’s capital.
by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Atlantic on March 20, 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. giving a speech.

The Crisis in America’s Cities

Martin Luther King Jr. on what sparked the violent urban riots of the “long hot summer” of 1967.
by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Atlantic on August 15, 1967
Kwame Ture at at a 1966 Mississippi Press Conference. Public Domain.
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Stokely Carmichael Interview

A field secretary of SNCC discusses the importance of maintaining political power inside communities at the county level.
via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on April 21, 1966
Opponents of school desegregation in Montgomery, Alabama.

How Much Had Schools Really Been Desegregated by 1964?

Ten years after 'Brown v. Board of Education', Martin Luther King Jr. condemned how little had changed in the nation's classrooms.
by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Atlantic on May 7, 1964
James Baldwin

‘I Can’t Accept Western Values Because They Don’t Accept Me’

Revolution, the civil rights movement, and African-American identity.
by James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren via Literary Hub on April 27, 1964
National Civil Rights Museum recreation of King's Birmingham jail cell.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter written from prison remains one of his most famous works.
by Martin Luther King Jr. via University of Pennsylvania on April 16, 1963
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Commentary of a Black Southern Bus Rider

Rosa Parks discusses her refusal to give up a seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.
by Rosa Parks, KPFA via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on December 20, 1962
Rosa Parks' mugshot.

December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks Is Arrested

“This dramatic display of unity may well inspire the Negro residents of other Southern cities to similar action.”
via The Nation on December 24, 1955
Pictures of Martin Luther King Jr. with a red background, and with words talking about his assassination.

The Man Who Was Supposed to Kill Martin Luther King Jr.

For years, one man complicated the official story of who murdered the civil-rights leader. Just before he died in October, he offered a jaw-dropping revelation.
by Nina Gilden Seavey via Slate on December 1, 2025
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On the Sweeping Supreme Court Decision That Led to Widespread High School Censorship

A look at the long history of censorship in public school yearbooks.
by Kate Eichhorn via Literary Hub on November 25, 2025
“Furling the Flag” by Richard Norris Brooke (1872)

Alternative Fictions: The New Lost Cause in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Revisiting the Lost Cause through post–Civil Rights Movement alternative histories.
by Kris Plunkett via Muster on October 31, 2025
Display of "our famous people" at a local museum.

Long Before the Field: Community, Memory, and the Making of Public History

What the institutionalization of "public history" means.
by Raquel Torúa Padilla via Not Even Past on October 20, 2025
Spectators watch the Atlanta Crackers play at Ponce de Leon Park. Postcard from 1915.

“Cobb Out Front in Bid for Stadium”: Professional Baseball and the Rise of Suburbia, 1957-1962

Leaders in Cobb county pushed a huge stadium plan in the late ’50s to lure teams and suburban growth, but funding, leagues, and politics stalled it.
by Andrew J. Bramlett via Atlanta Studies on October 20, 2025
Joseph McCarthy.

The Red Scare Is American Past and Present

If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here.
by Benjamin Balthaser via Jacobin on October 19, 2025
Pete and Charlotte O'Neal at the United African Alliance Community Center (UAACC) in Tanzania.

The Black Panthers Who Never Came Home

Fifty-nine years after Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panthers, Charlotte and Pete O’Neal remain in exile in Tanzania.
by Jaclynn Ashly via Jacobin on October 15, 2025
John Brown stands armed, positioned before Union and Confederate people fighting amid smoke and devastation.

Why Donald Trump Wants to Erase John Brown’s Fiery Abolitionist Legacy (and Why He Will Fail)

Reflections on Harper's Ferry amid a government shutdown.
by Robert S. Levine via Literary Hub on October 10, 2025
Collage illustration of a founder, Declaration of Independence, and the body of an enslaved person whose arms are in chains.

Whose Independence?

The question of what Jefferson meant by “all men” has defined American law and politics for too long.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via The Atlantic on October 9, 2025
FDR at his desk.

The Invention of American Liberalism

What does it mean to be a liberal in America—and why has that label inspired both devotion and disdain?
by Kevin M. Schultz, Jacob Bruggeman via Fusion on September 23, 2025
National Guard troops enforce desegregation at Central High School in Little Rock, AK, 1957.
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The History of School Desegregation Reveals the Job Isn't Done

One of the most famous episodes of school desegregation was actually just the starting point for a half-century struggle.
by Heather McNamee via Made By History on September 4, 2025
Althea Gibson holding her tennis racket at the London airport.

Ahead of the Game

Althea Gibson, one of the great tennis players of the twentieth century, made segregation in her sport untenable.
by Sasha Abramsky via New York Review of Books on September 4, 2025
Dorothy Parker at work writing

Pretty Garrotte: Why We Need Dorothy Parker

While she always insisted that she wasn’t a ‘real’ critic, Dorothy Parker is more astute than most on matters of style.
by Kasia Boddy via London Review of Books on September 3, 2025
James Baldwin

The Many Lives of James Baldwin

A new biography shows that his life was more complex than his viral fame suggests.
by John Livesey via Jacobin on August 17, 2025
Art of the Radio Free Dixie Banner

Radio Free Dixie: A Revolutionary Cultural Institution

Sixty-four years after Radio Free Dixie first aired, the show is still a shining example of a truly revolutionary cultural institution.
by John Morrison via Scalawag on August 5, 2025
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