Past Voices
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
Applying Migration Studies To The History Of Black Fugitivity In The Antebellum Urban South. By Jaimie D. Crumley / AAIHS
Black Capitalism, Underground Economies, and the Great Depression: West Palm Beach Florida. By Candace Cunningham / AAIHS
Native American histories show rebuilding is possible and necessary after catastrophe. By B.L. Blanchard / Vox
Zora Neale Hurston’s Eatonville Fights To Keep Land to Preserve History. By Aallyah Wright / Capital B
As GOP governors obscure Black history, let’s finally tell the truth about Marcus Garvey. By Justin Hansford and Shaq Al-Hijaz / CNN
Who are the ‘Courageous Eight’ in 1965 Selma Civil Rights marches? By Saleen Martin / USA Today
Myrlie Evers, civil-rights pioneer, still marches against racism at 90. By Susan Page / USA Today
