On April 11, 1913, recently inaugurated President Woodrow Wilson received Postmaster General Albert Burleson’s plan to segregate the Railway Mail Service. Burleson reported that he found it “intolerable” that white and black employees had to work together and share drinking glasses and washrooms. This sentiment was shared by others in Wilson’s administration; William McAdoo, Secretary […]
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Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Plessy v. Ferguson | Equal Justice Initiative
On April 13, 1896, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments in a case challenging racial segregation laws in Louisiana. Homer Plessy, a black man who had been arrested for boarding a “white only” passenger car, argued that the state segregation law violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, which abolished slavery and established equal protection of the laws. […]
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White Men Attack Nat King Cole During Performance in Birmingham, Alabama | Equal Justice Initiative
On April 10, 1956, African American singer and pianist Nat King Cole was performing before an all-white audience of 4000 at the Municipal Auditorium in Birmingham, Alabama, when he was attacked and knocked down by a group of white men. Before the attack, a drunk man near the front row jeered at Mr. Cole, “Negro, […]
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Christian Soldiers | Slate
The lynching and torture of blacks in the Jim Crow South weren’t just acts of racism. They were religious rituals. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The cliché is that Americans have a short memory, but since Saturday, a number of us have been arguing over medieval religious wars and whether they have any lessons for today’s violence in […]
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The Privilege of White Victimhood | Dame Magazine
We’re in the grips of a peak white-pity party moment. And it has the potential to incite a riot. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Being an actual victim of anything sucks. This is a thing we are supposed to learn as we grow up. We’re supposed to grow out of the phase where we get jealous of the […]
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White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It’s not | The Guardian
“While most of us see ourselves as ‘not racist’, we continue to reproduce racist outcomes and live segregated lives.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] I am white. As an academic, consultant and writer on white racial identity and race relations, I speak daily with other white people about the meaning of race in our lives. These conversations are […]
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The Norfolk 17 face a hostile reception as schools reopen | The Virginian-Pilot
Three weeks later than originally scheduled, Norfolk schools were finally ready to open. Well, most of them. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On Sept. 29, 1958, 48 of Norfolk’s schools welcomed students – but the doors of six were padlocked and under police guard. Maury, Norview and Granby high schools and Northside, Norview and Blair junior highs remained […]
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When advertisers fetishize race | The Washington Times
Depicting a sanitized racial utopia is unfamiliar to most Americans
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The FBI Spends a Lot of Time Spying on Black Americans | The Intercept
THE FBI HAS come under intense criticism after a 2017 leak exposed that its counterterrorism division had invented a new, unfounded domestic terrorism category it called “black identity extremism.” Since then, legislators have pressured the bureau’s leadership to be more transparent about its investigation of black activists, and a number of civil rights groups have […]
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These Moving Photos Show Life in Apartheid-Era South Africa | Global Citizen
Celebrated South African photographer David Goldblatt took up photography in 1948, the same year the all-white National Party came into power and apartheid began in his country. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Though Goldblatt, pictured above, was just 18 at the time, documenting the impact of apartheid — the government-implemented system of racial segregation in South Africa — […]
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