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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
There’s a New Lewis Powell Memo, and It’s Wildly Racist
One young conservative lawyer would lead a determined fight to maintain Lewis Powell’s blindfolded race neutrality.
by
David Daley
via
Slate
on
August 6, 2024
Josh Gibson Topples Ty Cobb?
The power of history, numbers, and nostalgia.
by
Adrian Burgos
via
Perspectives on History
on
July 9, 2024
What the Civil Rights Act Really Meant
An overlooked effect of the legislation, passed 60 years ago this week, was its powerful message of hope for Black Americans.
by
William Sturkey
via
The Atlantic
on
July 5, 2024
Negro-League Players Don’t Belong in the MLB Record Books
And neither do white players from the segregation era.
by
Malcolm Ferguson
via
The Atlantic
on
June 13, 2024
Everyone Should Know About Rickwood Field, the Alabama Park Where Baseball Legends Made History
The sport's greatest figures played ball in the Deep South amid the racism and bigotry that would later make Birmingham the center of the civil rights movement.
by
Patrick Sauer
via
Smithsonian
on
June 12, 2024
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We Must Remember Tuscaloosa's 'Bloody Tuesday'
Black citizens fought for justice and were met with violence. They persevered.
by
John M. Giggie
via
Made by History
on
June 7, 2024
The Negro Leagues Are Officially Part of MLB History — With the Records to Prove It
The MLB incorporated the statistics of 2,300 Black athletes who played in the segregated Negro Leagues, making the Josh Gibson its new all-time batting leader.
by
Rachel Treisman
via
NPR
on
May 29, 2024
“You Would Make Little Nazis of Them”: Lillian Smith, Jim Crow, and Nazi Germany
Smith understood why so many white Americans, especially white Southerners, struggled to accept that their society was not so far removed from Hitler’s Germany.
by
Matthew Teutsch
,
Camille Nunnally
via
COMP
on
May 22, 2024
This Map Lets You See How School Segregation Has Changed in Your Hometown
The new interactive tool accompanies a study of school enrollment data, which shows that segregation has worsened in recent decades.
by
Sarah Kuta
via
Smithsonian
on
May 17, 2024
The ‘Black Angels’ Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Professional nurses who moved north during the Great Migration worked in New York City’s most contagious sanatorium — and changed the course of public health.
by
Maria Smilios
via
The Emancipator
on
May 9, 2024
She Was No ‘Mammy’
Gordon Parks’s most famous photograph, "American Gothic," was of a cleaning woman in Washington, D.C. She has a story to tell.
by
Salamishah Tillet
via
The Atlantic
on
May 8, 2024
They Were Born into Slavery. Then They Won the First Kentucky Derby.
As the 150th Kentucky Derby kicks off, the achievements of jockey Oliver Lewis and trainer Ansel Williamson at the first Derby have been largely forgotten.
by
Dave Kindy
via
Retropolis
on
May 4, 2024
American Legion Baseball, Episode 1
The story of an incident that may have been the first time the issue of race was ever addressed on a baseball field in the Carolinas.
by
Chris Holaday
via
UNC Press Blog
on
April 25, 2024
Tax History Matters: A Q&A with the Author of ‘The Black Tax’
The history of the property tax system and its structural defects that have led to widespread discrimination against Black Americans.
by
Andrew W. Kahrl
,
Brakeyshia Samms
via
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
on
April 24, 2024
Remembering John Hope Franklin, OAH’s First Black President
The 2024 OAH Conference on American History falls almost fifteen years after the renowned historian, teacher, and activist's death.
by
Rob Heinrich
via
OUPblog
on
April 9, 2024
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