“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim.”
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3 Black U.S. Senators Introduce Bill to Make Lynching a Federal Hate Crime | The New York Times
Under the bill, lynching would be punishable by a sentence of up to life in prison. The measure would not preclude murder charges that can already be brought under existing law.
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Indigenous Hospital, Home of Formerly Enslaved Man Added to List of Endangered Sites | Colorlines
The National Trust for Historic Preservation features sites of historic and cultural importance to Black, Indigenous, Latinx and Carribean communities on its 2018 list of the “11 Most Endangered Historic Places.”
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Harriet Tyler, long-time Santa Ana resident and black history curator, remembered for her contributions | The Orange County Register
For seven decades, Harriet Tyler worked to preserve and document the history of African Americans in Orange County.
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New Exhibit Tackles Jim Crow Repression and Resistance | Colorlines
Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow is the first of several upcoming New-York Historical Society exhibits dedicated to Black culture and history.
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Found: Rosa Parks’s Arrest Warrant, and More Traces of Civil Rights History | The New York Times
When the Montgomery bus boycott electrified the struggle against segregation, it was all recorded in appeals bonds, court motions and $10 fines. A forgotten trove has turned up in a courthouse vault.
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Library Group Removes ‘Little House’ Author’s Name From Award For Racist Themes | Colorlines
The Association for Library Service to Children renamed the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in response to long-standing complaints about her books’ treatment of Indigenous and Black people.
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Fifty years on, the Mississippi town that sparked Dr King’s poverty fight | The Guardian
Protesters head to DC for ‘second phase’ of campaign inspired by Dr King that saw thousands travel by mule train to camp on the National Mall.
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Hidden portraits: rare photos of African American life get a spotlight | The Guardian
At a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art studio portraits of anonymous black Americans give a rarely seen view of life at a time of change
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‘This is huge’: black liberationist speaks out after her 40 years in prison | The Guardian
Exclusive: Debbie Sims Africa, the first freed member of a radical Philadelphia group many say were unjustly imprisoned, talks about reuniting with her son and defends the Move members still locked up: ‘We are peaceful people’
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