Past Voices
Leroy Stover, Birmingham’s first Black police officer, dies at 90. By AP and ABC News
The Sacred Ground Where Black Americans Search for Their Roots. By Margo Snipe / Capital B
Using Horror to Explore Florida’s Ignored Civil Rights Movement. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Robert E. Lee Confederate statue in Charlottesville melted down. By Debbie Elliott / NPR
Septima Clark and the Fight for Civil Rights. By Tara Kirton / AAIHS
Stop Messaging Me, A Black Journalist, About White Irish “Slaves.” By Garrison Hayes / Mother Jones
The Killing of Breonna Taylor Still Reverberates in Kentucky Politics. By Grace Panetta / Capital B
Back in the 1960s, the push for parental rights over school standards was not led by white conservatives but by Black and Latino parents. By Jerald Podair / The Conversation
Killers of the Flower Moon: What is the true story about the Osage Murders? By Aja Romano / Vox
The remarkable life of Samuel Ringgold Ward. By Kellie Carter Jackson / The Nation
When White Leaders Said the Quiet Part Out Loud. Famous quotes advocating racism. By William Spivey / The Good Men Project
Klan War: how Ulysses S Grant took the fight to the extreme right. By Rich Tenorio / The Guardian
The Last U.S. Slave Ship Arrived in Alabama 163 Years Ago — This New Museum Honors the 110 People on Board. By Natalie Preddie / Travel and Leisure
Dred Scott’s struggle for freedom honored with new memorial. By Gabrielle Hays and Solveig Rennan / PBS
Native Americans celebrate their histories and cultures on Indigenous Peoples Day. By Mark Theissen and Morgan Lee / ABC News
A Racist Harvard Scientist Commissioned Photos of Enslaved People. One Possible Descendant Wants to Reclaim Their Story. By Jennifer Berry Hawes / Propublica
Black medic wounded on D-Day to be honored for treating dozens of troops. By Rebecca Santana and Kevin Wolf/ ABC News
Hughes Van Ellis, one of the last known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, dies. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
How an 8-year-old Hispanic girl paved the way for desegregation. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Columbus Day celebrates an ongoing threat to American democracy. By Robert P. Jones
Smithsonian Acquires Major Collection About Enslaved Poet. By Jennifer Schuessler / NYT
The Life and Activism of Rosa Parks: A CBFS Interview. By Lucien Baskin / AAIHS
Indigenous Peoples Day offers a reminder of Native American history − including the scalping they endured at the hands of Colonists. By Chriatoph Strobel / The Conversation
Florida’s History of African Resistance. By Brian G. / Momentum
The Musical Legacy of a Mississippi Prison Farm. By Hanif Abdurraqib / The New Yorker
Mary E. Pleasant: Reshaping the Landscape of Segregation in California. By E. Nicole Vines / AAIHS
