Past Voices
Slave cases are still cited as good law. This team is trying to change that. By Rachel Treisman / NPR
Memory of Samuel J. Bush, Black man lynched by mob, remembered by family, activists. By Okelo Pena / ABC News
Remembering Medgar Evers, 60 years after his death. By Julian Ring / NPR
A few Indian boarding schools remain open. By Sequola Carillo and Allison Herra / NPR
Fort Bragg becomes Fort Liberty in Army’s most prominent move to erase Confederate names from bases. By Hannah Schoebaum / AP
Descendants of early Black Californians want their ancestors’ stolen land back. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
A Black girl won the first national spelling bee, dealing a blow to racism. By Bill Chappell / NPR
Black people may have started Memorial Day. Whites erased it from history. By Donald Beaulieu / Wash Post
US Army Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas’ journey from enslaver to Union officer to civil rights defender. By Christopher Justin Einolf / The Conversation
How Greenwood Grew a Thriving Black Economy. By Victor Luckerson / NYT
The Defender and Chicago’s Built Environment. By Ray Dinsmore / AAIHS
Social Welfare and the Politics of Race in the Post-Civil War South. By Ryan W. Keating / AAIHS
Ultra Violence. By Nelson Lichtenstein / Dissent
Black Resistance and Slave Politics in Lowcountry Georgia. By Karen Cook Bell / AAIHS
The Last-Known ‘Colored’ School in Manhattan Becomes a Landmark. By Lola Fadulu / NYT
Most U.S. Latino history is left out of high school textbooks, study finds. By Edwin Flores / NBC News
King Cotton: The Confederacy’s Attempt to Gain Legitimacy Through Cotton. By Hansen’s Histories / Morning Clips
Erasing the Confederacy: Army changes names of iconic Fort Hood and Fort Benning bases. By Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today
Birmingham civil rights history: The backstory behind the famous photo of Walter Gadsden, officer Dick Middleton, and his police dog. By Joshua Clark Davis / Slate
Expert: US has long history of silencing Black officials and disenfranchising their constituents. By Rodney Coates / Salon
Black Women’s Resistance in Slave Rebellions. By Asia Thomas Uzomba / AAIHS
MLK’s famous criticism of Malcolm X was a ‘fraud,’ author finds. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
The Revolutionary Language of Black Abolitionists. By Frank Kalisik / AAIHS
A Philosopher and a Slaver, but No Longer a Name on a Library. By Ed O’Loughlin / NYT
CORE and the Early Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles. By M. Keith Claybrook Jr. / AAIHS
Another Side of W.E.B. Du Bois | The Nation. By Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins / The Nation
