Past Voices
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
Slavery and Disability in Antebellum America. By Christopher D.E. Willoughby / AAIHS
White power movements in US history have often relied on veterans — and not on lone wolves. By Kathleen Belew / The Conversation
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
