The sculpted clay was dry and the bronze would soon be cast, but artist Martin Dawe still found himself waking with a start before dawn, worried that he didn’t get the details of the famous man’s face exactly right.
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How About Erecting Monuments to the Heroes of Reconstruction? | The American Prospect
Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.
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In 1965, the city of Charlottesville demolished a thriving black neighborhood | Timeline
The razing of Vinegar Hill displaced families and dissolved the community.
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The Money Museum Gets Funky | The New York Times
Loreen Williamson and Pamela Thomas know that there are funkier figures in history than Booker T. Washington. Bear with them, though, and they will connect the dots that landed him in the Museum of UnCut Funk.
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The Whitney Plantation Is The Only Confederate Monument We Should Keep | BuzzFeed
I went to the Whitney Plantation Museum to see if America is ready to reckon with its past.
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Racial Segregation and How It Impacts the Health of Poor Americans | Atlanta Black Star
Home is where the heart is, but it is also where the health is. Last week, researchers at Princeton released a study that found that poor Black neighborhoods produce children (whether Black or not) with a higher risk of asthma than children in other neighborhoods. The study findings prove, yet again, that racism in housing markets has a negative effect on African-American health.
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Dick Gregory, 84, Dies; Found Humor in the Civil Rights Struggle – The New York Times
“You know the definition of a Southern moderate? That’s a cat that’ll lynch you from a low tree.”
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The Oldest African-American City In America Is Celebrating Its 130th Birthday | Okayplayer
Eatonville, which received its charter from the state of Florida in August 1887, was built as a self-governing all-black town for black people living in central Florida at the time.
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Remembering Frederick Isadore Scott, Johns Hopkins’ First Black Undergraduate | Afro
Frederick Isadore Scott, the first African-American undergraduate to earn a degree from Johns Hopkins University, died July 15 at Johns Hopkins Hospital following complications from an infection. He was 89.
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When Jack Daniel’s Failed to Honor a Slave, She Stepped In | The New York Times
LYNCHBURG, Tenn. — Fawn Weaver was on vacation in Singapore last summer when she first read about Nearest Green, the Tennessee slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey.
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