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What the Nazis Learned from America

Rigid racial codes in the early 20th century gained the admiration not only of many American elites, but also of Nazi Germany.

by Jessica Blatt via Public Books on July 6, 2017

The Civil Rights Act was a Victory Against Racism. But Racists Also Won.

The bill unleashed a poisonous idea: that America had defeated racism.

by Ibram X. Kendi via Made By History on July 2, 2017

Remembering the 'Overshadowed' Civil Rights Protest That Desegregated Gulf Coast Beaches

A project commemorating an often-overlooked civil-rights milestone recently received the Knight Cities Challenge prize.

by Lily Rothman via TIME on June 16, 2017

Lynching in America

A new digital exhibit confronts the legacy of racial terror.

via Equal Justice Initiative on June 13, 2017

The True History of the South Is Not Being Erased

Taking down Confederate monuments helps confront the past, not obscure it.

by Garrett Epps via The Atlantic on June 11, 2017

The Word Is ‘Nemesis’: The Fight to Integrate the National Spelling Bee

For talented black spellers in the 1960s, the segregated local spelling bee was the beginning of the long road to Washington, D.C.

by Cynthia R. Greenlee via Longreads on June 5, 2017

Bryan Stevenson Explains How It Feels To Grow Up Black Amid Confederate Monuments

"I think we have to increase our shame — and I don't think shame is a bad thing."

by Ezra Klein, Bryan Stevenson via Vox on May 24, 2017

Texas State Rep. Gives Powerful Testimony on the History of Bathroom Laws

It was all about the parallels between a new "bathroom bill" and the Jim Crow segregation of her youth.

via Washington Post on May 22, 2017

How African-Americans Disappeared from the Kentucky Derby

In the 19th century – when horse racing was America’s most popular sport – former slaves populated the ranks of jockeys and trainers.

by Katherine Mooney via The Conversation on May 4, 2017

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Mass Incarceration

The rise of mass incarceration in the early 1970s was fueled by white fear of black crime. But the fear of crime wasn’t confined to whites.

by Adam Shatz via London Review of Books on May 4, 2017

When Nina Simone Sang What Everyone Was Thinking

“Mississippi Goddam” was an angry response to tragedy, in show tune form.

by Tom Maxwell via Longreads on April 20, 2017

The Many Lives of Pauli Murray

She was an architect of the civil-rights struggle-and the women's movement. Why haven't you heard of her?

by Kathryn Schulz via The New Yorker on April 17, 2017

Uneasy Riders

Even before United Airlines, a legacy of excessive force existed in transportation.

by Robin Washington via The Marshall Project on April 12, 2017

Five Myths About World War I

The United States wasn't filled with isolationists, and it wasn't exactly neutral before 1917.

by Michael Kazin via Washington Post on April 6, 2017

Black and Woke in Capitalist America: Revisiting Robert Allen’s "Black Awakening"... for New Times’ Sake

A look into neocolonialism in modern America.

by N. D. B. Connolly via Social Science Research Council on March 7, 2017

'Segregation Had to Be Invented'

During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.

by Alana Semuels via The Atlantic on February 17, 2017

Rosa Parks and the Power of Oneness

Rosa Parks shook the world of Jim Crow by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on her way home from work.

by Peter Feuerherd, Barry Schwartz via JSTOR Daily on December 1, 2016

Reasserting White Supremacy

South Carolina’s Ben Tillman and the 2016 presidential election.

by Caroline Grego via Erstwhile: A History Blog on November 30, 2016

How Rock and Roll Became White

And how the Rolling Stones, a band in love with black music, helped lead the way to rock’s segregated future.

by Jack Hamilton via Slate on October 6, 2016

Fair Housing

Has the government done enough to stop housing discrimination?

via Retro Report on September 18, 2016

What Do You Do After Surviving Your Own Lynching?

On August 7, 1930, three black teenagers were lynched in Marion, Indiana. James Cameron was one of them.

by Syreeta McFadden via BuzzFeed News on June 23, 2016

Demonstrators at a Black Lives Matter rally.

Fifty Years Ago, the Government Said Black Lives Matter

The conclusions of the 1968 Kerner Report portrayed race relations like no other report in history.

by Julian E. Zelizer via Boston Review on May 5, 2016

Claudette Colvin: 'A Teenage Rosa Parks'

What makes a hero? Why do we remember some stories and not others?

by Radio Diaries via Radio Diaries on March 2, 2016

Black and white photo of Woodrow Wilson and his cabinet sitting around a conference table.

How the Black Middle Class Was Attacked By Woodrow Wilson’s Administration

A historian looks at the widespread racism in the American progressive movement of the early 20th century.

by Eric S. Yellin via The Conversation on February 8, 2016

Drawing of man with caption "MR R.R. Bowie, President of the Mixologist Club"

A History of Black Bartenders

In the late 19th century, Black bartenders gained esteem in the North and South. But their experiences were very different — in ways that may defy assumptions.

by David Wondrich via The Bitter Southerner on January 12, 2016

Booker T. Washington writing at a desk.

Toward a Usable Black History

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.

by John McWhorter via City Journal on December 23, 2015

Don’t Be So Quick to Defend Woodrow Wilson

It would be a grave mistake to ignore the link between Wilson’s white supremacy at home and his racist militarism abroad.

by Greg Grandin via The Nation on November 24, 2015

The Price of Union

The undefeatable South.

by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on November 2, 2015

Negro League Baseball

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

by Jamie Lathan 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

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