These remarkable black men and women never received obituaries in The New York Times — until now. We’re adding their stories to our project about prominent people whose deaths were not reported by the newspaper.
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Dismantling the Myth of the “Black Confederate” | Slate
A new book explores the false—yet oddly ubiquitous—belief that black men fought for the South during the Civil War.
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Dred Scott Decision: The Case and Its Impact | ThoughtCo.
By Robert Longley, ThoughtCo. Dred Scott v. Sandford, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, declared that black people, whether free or slave, could not be American citizens and were thus constitutionally unable to sue for citizenship in the federal courts. The Court’s majority opinion also declared that the 1820 Missouri Compromise was […]
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White women were colonisers too. To move forward, we have to stop letting them off the hook | The Guardian
We will never understand the impact of colonial oppression if we underestimate white women’s role in it, writes Ruby Hamad
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‘Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master’ | GOOD.IS
Anderson’s letter showed compassion, defiance, and dignity.
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Marian Anderson: The Most Modest Trailblazer | NPR
By Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR Classical singer Marian Anderson was one of the all-time greats — both as an artist, and as a cultural figure who broke down racial barriers. She is best known for performing at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, after she was denied permission to sing for an integrated audience at Washington’s DAR Constitution […]
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Director Roger Ross Williams On Emmy-Nominated VR Film ‘Traveling While Black’: “It’s A Big Moment” | Deadline
Director Roger Ross Williams on his Emmy-nominated project: “You get to be in a Black space that you normally wouldn’t have access to.”
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What Do You Do After Surviving Your Own Lynching? | Buzzfeed
The most iconic image of racist brutality in America would have looked different had James Cameron not survived a lynching attempt in Indiana in 1930. He devoted the rest of his life not just to civil rights, but to memorializing the moment of his near death.
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J. Edgar Hoover saw Dick Gregory as a threat. So he schemed to have the Mafia ‘neutralize’ the comic. | Washington Post
Kyle Swenson, Washington Post [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the middle of the hothouse atmosphere of the 1968 U.S. presidential election — racial strife splitting cities, antiwar protests on college campuses, segregationist George Wallace growling up out of the South — Dick Gregory barnstormed the country, pitching audiences his acid mix of jokes and politics. The African American comic […]
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Never Forget: 69 Black Boys Were Padlocked Into A Dormitory Where A Mysterious Fired Started – 21 Burned To Death | Black Main Street
For the last 5 decades, every year has been 1959 for Frank Lawrence. For the majority of his life, Lawrence has been trying to solve one of Arkansas’ greatest mysteries. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “No one ever knew it existed because the ability of the state of Arkansas to do such a fantastic job to cover it […]
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