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Birmingham’s ‘Fifth Girl’

Sarah Collins Rudolph survived the 1963 church bombing that killed her sister and three other girls. She's still waiting on restitution and an apology.
by Sydney Trent via Washington Post on March 6, 2020
Ed Dwight Jr. with model rocket.

I Was Poised to be the First Black Astronaut. I Never Made it to Space.

Ed Dwight Jr. trained to go to the moon, but racism in the selection process kept him out of space.
by Ben Proudfoot via New York Times Op-Docs on December 19, 2019

How the Republican Majority Emerged

Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.
by Kevin M. Kruse, Dov Weinryb Grohsgal via The Atlantic on August 6, 2019

Making Philly a Blue-Collar City

Sports, politics, and civic identity in modern Philadelphia.
by Timothy Lombardo via Sport in American History on September 6, 2018
An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C. in 1957.

Common Core Is a Menace to Pluralism and Democracy

But can locally empowered communities really fix our schools' problems?
by Johann N. Neem via The American Conservative on June 19, 2018

The End of Civil Rights

The attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on June 18, 2018

The United States & 'The Young and Fearless of Heart'

The March for Our Lives organizers are not an anomaly, but follow in a long tradition of youth activism in America.
by Glenn David Brasher via History Headlines on March 25, 2018

The Racist History of the ‘Crisis Actor’ Attacks on Parkland School Shooting Survivors

Courageous Americans have been undermined by conspiracy theories for more than 150 years.
by Michael E. Miller via Retropolis on February 23, 2018
Boy walking across a dirt road in Biloxi.

How Poverty and Racism Persist in Mississippi

Author Jesmyn Ward on the racism “built into the bones” of the state where she grew up and is choosing to raise her children.
by Jesmyn Ward via The Atlantic on February 1, 2018

Virginia Is for Lovers

Fifty years after Loving v. Virginia, four scholars consider the legacy of the famous Supreme Court decision.
by Gretchen Livingston, Peter Wallenstein, Angela Gonzales, Christopher Bonastia via Contexts Magazine on January 22, 2018

The Bombs, the Church, the City, the State

What was Alabama back then? And what is Alabama right now?
by Charles P. Pierce via Esquire on December 11, 2017

Boston. Racism. Image. Reality.

The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team confronts one of the city’s most vexing issues.
by Akilah Johnson via Boston Globe on December 10, 2017

Zora Neale Hurston: “A Genius of the South”

John W. W. Zeiser reviews Peter Bagge's graphic biography "Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story."
by John W. W. Zeiser via Los Angeles Review of Books on November 13, 2017

The Architect of the Radical Right

How the Nobel Prize–winning economist James M. Buchanan shaped today’s antigovernment politics.
by Sam Tanenhaus via The Atlantic on June 20, 2017

Here's the Real History Behind Arizona's Confederate Monuments

It has less to do with the state's role in the Civil War, and more to do with backlash to the Civil Rights movement.
by Antonia Noori Farzan via Phoenix New Times on June 7, 2017

Bathing in Controversy

For a century, school showers have anticipated the current debate about bathrooms.
by J. Y. Chua via The Atlantic on June 2, 2017

What Richmond Has Gotten Right About Interpreting its Confederate History

Why hasn't Richmond faced the same controversies as New Orleans or Charlottesville?
by Kevin M. Levin via Smithsonian on May 18, 2017

Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery

Blacks continue to die younger than people in other groups in the Black Belt.
by Anna Maria Barry-Jester via FiveThirtyEight on April 20, 2017

The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street

Richmond was the epicenter of black finance. What happened there explains the decline of black-owned banks across the country.
by Alexia Fernández Campbell via The Atlantic on August 31, 2016
Cover of "Why Busing Failed," depicting anti-busing protestors surrounding a school bus.

Why Busing Failed

Getting the history of “busing” right enables us to see more clearly how school segregation and educational inequality continued in the decades after Brown.
by Matt Delmont via Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation on March 6, 2016

The Black Power Movement

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Lakisha Odlum via Digital Public Library of America on October 14, 2015

Barbering for Freedom

Segregation, separatism, and the history of black barbershops.
by Elias Rodriques via n+1 on September 28, 2015
Map of Omaha.

A History of Redlining in Omaha

Redlining in Omaha began in the 1920s. Although outlawed in the 1960s, its effects are still present in the city's demographics.
by Adam F. C. Fletcher via North Omaha History on August 2, 2015

What This Cruel War Was Over

The meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on June 22, 2015
LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom

A Library of Congress exhibit on the context, passage, and significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
via Library of Congress on September 10, 2014

The Real Origins of the Religious Right

They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.
by Randall Balmer via Politico Magazine on May 27, 2014
Cover of "Making Whiteness," featuring a Black man in front of a billboard of larger-than-life white faces.
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Making Whiteness

How a historian's family history informed her professional quest to unpack the stories white Southerners told about themselves.
by In Black America via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on September 1, 1998
Photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into microphones.

Let Justice Roll Down

"Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma."
by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Nation on March 16, 1965

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