The facts of the Tulsa massacre appeared to have been unknown to many “Watchmen” viewers, who expressed their disbelief on social media.
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How I got revenge on a plantation tour | The Guardian
Nygel Turner recounts the weird, emotional experience of touring of a former slave plantation with his dad and uncle
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Five black men raided Harpers Ferry with John Brown. They’ve been forgotten. | The Washington Post
Every October, on the anniversary of the raid that helped fuel the Civil War, much attention is focused on Brown, not on his African American soldiers
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From emperors to inventors: the unsung heroes to celebrate in Black History Month | The Guardian
In 1926, the US historian Carter G Woodson, the son of former slaves, launched Negro History Week to commemorate important people and events from the African diaspora.
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Building America | The Nation
The making of the black working class.
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The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919 | NY Books
In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre in Phillips County, Arkansas, which took place in October 1919, a century ago this week, may rank as the deadliest. The reasons why the event has remained shrouded and obscure, despite a shocking toll of bloodshed inflicted on the African-American inhabitants of Phillips County, […]
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Juanita Abernathy, civil rights icon, dies | AJC
Rosalind Bentley, Ernie Suggs, AJC In this April 18, 1963 file photo, Coretta Scott King, left, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, center, and Mrs. Juanita Abernathy, leave Birmingham jail after visiting Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Dr. Ralph Abernathy in Birmingham, Ala. Juanita Abernathy, who wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery […]
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A.L. Lewis: Florida’s first black millionaire remembered | NBC News
By Associated Press, NBC News Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole. Featured Image [dropcap]F[/dropcap]ERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. — They called him Fafa. A.L. Lewis loomed large in the Jacksonville childhood of great-granddaughter Johnnetta Betsch Cole and her two siblings. With only an elementary school education, he helped found the Afro-American Life Insurance Co. in 1901 and became Florida’s […]
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UVA grants full alumni status to black nurses who earned it decades ago | UVA Magazine
Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, UVA Magazine CLAUDE MOORE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY. Featured Image [dropcap]S[/dropcap]ome 20 years ago, longtime friends Louella Walker (Nurs ’58) and Mary Jones (Nurs ’61) were browsing a former teacher’s estate sale when they unearthed a brown bag filled with black-and-white photos. Staring back at them were their own faces, alongside those of […]
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How white women’s “investment” in slavery has shaped America today |Vox
White women are sometimes seen as bystanders to slavery. A historian explains why that’s wrong.
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