Past Voices
Tennessee Has Two White Faces. I’ve Seen Both of Them. By Ishmel Reed / Politico
Confederate Tributes Are Losing Their Patron Saint. By Brent Staples / NYT
Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part I. By Menika Dirkson / AAIHS
Emmett Till’s accuser, Carolyn Bryant Donham, has died – here’s how the 1955 murder case helped define civil rights history. By Davia W. Houck / The Conversation
60 years on, King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ relevant as ever, say faith leaders. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Without Indigenous History, There Is No U.S. History. By Ned Blackhawk / Time
Black Soldiers and their Families’ Activism during the Antebellum Era. By Holly A. Pinheiro / AAIHS
Black And White Descendants Of Robert E. Lee Met For A Reunion At The Arlington House In Virginia. By Sharell Burt / Black Enterprise
The Enslaved Artisan Behind Thomas Jefferson’s Newly Restored Va. Estate. By J. Michael Welton / Wash Post
Black students in Washington state played key role in the Civil Rights Movement, new book states. By Marc Arsell Robinson / The Conversation
These Black Mothers Bet on Themselves and Transformed Las Vegas. By Annellise Orleck / Mother Jones
The Man Who Knew Exactly What the F.B.I. Was Doing to Martin Luther King Jr. By Jonathan Eig and Jeanne Theoharis / NYT
A Navy ship named for a Confederate victory now honors a Black Union hero. By Quil Lawrence / NPR
The real message behind expelling the Black members of the ‘Tennessee Three.’ By Jemar Tisby / CNN
Lost graves reveal story of African American church in Williamsburg. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
Inside the Ku Klux Klan’s Plan to Conquer America. By Brooke Leigh Howard / The Daily Beast
The Klan was not confined to the South. Nor were its foes. By Timothy Egan / Wash Post
How King’s assassination changed D.C. in 1968. By Michael McGill / Wash Post
How the 1876 presidential election enabled Jim Crow. By Tom Hanks and Jeffery Robinson / Wash Post
Enslaved people built Davidson College and its campus. A new memorial will honor them. By Anna Maria Della Costa / The Charlotte Observer
What We’ll Be Celebrating When Harriet Tubman Appears on the 20-Dollar Bill. By Clarence Lusane / The Nation
Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy. By Ida E. Jones / AAIHS
Progressives Have Failed to Heed LBJ’s Final Warning. By Mark K. Updegrove / Time
Slavery and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey. By Rann Miller / AAIHS
Black Homeownership Before World War II. By Menika Dirkson / AAIHS
Like it or not, we all bear some responsibility for slavery. By The Guardian Letters
