Carlotta Walls LeNier, whose school dress is in Smithsonian, says much was accomplished and now we need to hold onto it.
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Hidden Figure | VUMC Voice
In 1964, with little fanfare, Harold Jordan, M.D., became the first African-American resident physician at Vanderbilt. Looking back to that time, he recalls the support of his colleagues and the challenges he faced.
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Detroit House Preserves Memories of a Little-Known Part of Rosa Parks’s Life | The New York Times
When Rosa Parks stayed there in the late 1950s, the house on South Deacon Street in southwest Detroit was modest — two stories high, with white shutters and a chimney peeking from the top.
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This black doctor faced down an angry white mob storming his house — and was acquitted of murder | Timeline
Ossian Sweet defended his family, and was arrested for it
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Harriet Tubman Goes For White Supremacy’s Throat In ‘Harriet Tubman: Demon Slayer’ | Blavity
This comic is what we need right now in the age of #NoConfederate.
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Martin Luther King Jr. statue to rise on Georgia Capitol, as Confederate monuments fall | Chicago Tribune
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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Historically black beach enclaves are fighting to save their history and identity | The Denver Post
Some historically black beach communities that have long escaped major property development and an influx of investors are increasingly fending off both.
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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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