Johnson was forced to marry her rapist to help him evade punishment.
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Valerie Cunningham to receive Inspiration Award for creating change | Sea Coast Online
Anne Richter Arnold, Sea Coast Online Valerie Cunningham, founder of the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, left, and JerriAnne Boggis, director of the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, with one of the plaques to be placed at the Cooper Home at 171 Washington St. in Portsmouth during the trail’s 20th anniversary celebration in 2015. [File photo by […]
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We Did It, They Hid It: How Memorial Day Was Stripped Of Its African American Roots | Black Then
What we now know as Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a tradition initiated by former slaves to celebrate emancipationand commemorate those who died for that cause. These days, Memorial Day is arranged as a day “without politics”—a general patriotic celebration of all soldiers […]
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’48 years is enough’: activists and celebrities call for release of ex-Black Panther | The Guardian
Seventy-five public figures sign letter to New York governor asking for release of Jalil Muntaqim after nearly five decades in prison
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How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All | Smithsonian.com
Historian Martha S. Jones takes a look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage
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The Story Of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Talking Book’ | NPR
By the early 1970s, Stevie Wonder had already spent nearly a decade churning out hits for Motown Records as Little Stevie. But at age 22 he no longer wanted to follow the Motown formula, a formula designed to produce hit singles rather than innovation. So Wonder struck out on his own. Over the next decade, […]
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The failure of Reconstruction was a ruthless act of sabotage | The Washington Post
In Conservatives sometimes accuse the academic left of ignoring the good in U.S. history and emphasizing the horrors. But in some respects, the typical telling of the American story does not focus enough on the horrors. As I recall from my distant youth, U.S. history texts dealt with the run-up to the Civil War, then […]
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The Mob Violence of the Red Summer | JSTOR Daily
In 1919, a brutal outburst of mob violence was directed against African Americans across the United States. White, uniformed servicemen led the charge.
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Dr. Granville Coggs of San Antonio was Tuskegee Airman and Renaissance man | My San Antonio
Vincent Davis, My San Antonio Photo: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, Featured Image [dropcap]There[/dropcap] wasn’t a challenge from which Dr. Granville Coleridge Coggs ever walked away. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] During World War II, when the U.S. military was racially segregated, Coggs, the grandson of slaves, completed pilot training to become one of the […]
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Gentrification is erasing black cemeteries and, with it, black history | The Guardian
Local activists are fighting to save Boyd Carter cemetery, a historic black burial ground in West Virginia in the path of a pipeline.
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