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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‘Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master’ | GOOD.IS
Anderson’s letter showed compassion, defiance, and dignity.
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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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How an accidental encounter brought slavery to the United States | USA Today
Rick Hampson, USA TODAY, USA Today SOURCE slavevoyages.org. Featured Image [dropcap]F[/dropcap]our hundred years ago this summer, a few weeks and 35 miles apart, two epochal events occurred. One was the inaugural meeting of the General Assembly of the Virginia colony – the first elective representative body of its kind in North America. The other was […]
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The founding family you’ve never heard of: The black Tuckers of Hampton, Virginia | USA Today
HAMPTON, Va. – As Walter Jones walks his family’s ancient cemetery, shovel in hand, he wonders about those who rest there. The gravestones date back as far as the 1800s. Some bear the names of folks Walter knew; some have faded to illegibility; some are in pieces. And, under the brush he’s cleared away and […]
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5 things people still get wrong about slavery | Vox
We asked historians to debunk slavery’s greatest myths.
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How Federal Policies Dispossessed Black Americans of Millions of Acres | Truthout
Over the 20th century, black people in the U.S. were dispossessed of 12 million acres of land. Half of that loss — 6 million acres — occurred over just two decades, from 1950 to 1969, a period largely associated with the civil rights struggle. This mass land dispossession, which affected 98% of black agricultural land […]
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A rural town confronts its buried history of mass killings of black Americans | The Guardian
100 years after hundreds of African Americans were reportedly killed in Elaine, Arkansas, a memorial is set to bring details of the tragedy to light
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