Past Voices
America has a history of banning Black studies. We can learn from that past. By Derecka Purnell / The Guardian
After MLK’s home was bombed, he refused to back down: ‘This movement will not stop.’ By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Black Vietnam veteran’s nearly 60-year wait for Medal of Honor is over. By Catherine Herridge / CBS News
Even in Death, Black Americans Have Been Denied the Right to Rest in Peace. By Greg Melville / NYT
We whose ancestors owned slaves want to make amends – but nations must also pay their due. By Alex Renton / The Guardian
School building for Black children in 1700s moves to Colonial Williamsburg. By Susan Svrluga / Wash Post
‘The Americans Got Together and Decided to Drown You in the River.’ By Danny Cherry Jr. / Politico
“Indigenous Continent” Flips American History. By Sean T. Byrnes / The New Republic
Overlooked No More: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poet and Suffragist. By Ian Zack / NYT
The brave, forgotten Kansas lunch counter sit-in that helped change America. By Kate Torgovnick May/ Wash Post
Striving Toward Freedom and Black Pittsburgh. By Hettie Williams / AAIHS
Professor digs into history of Mercy sister’s boarding school for Native children. By Joyce Meyer / Global Sisters Report
Slavery in Appalachia: The untold stories of Black Appalachian history. By Janay Reece / Wdbj7
The Rosa Parks of D.C. By David A. Taylore / Wash Post
The painful, cutting and brilliant letters Black people wrote to their former enslavers. By Gillian Brodkwell / Wash Post
Civil rights legislation sparked powerful backlash that’s still shaping American politics. By Julian Maxwell Hayter / The Conversation
The Life of Louis Fatio: American Slavery and Indigenous Sovereignty. By Caroline Wood Newhall / AAIHS
Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble. By Jerald Podair / The Conversation
Myth America review: superb group history of the lies that built a nation. By Charles Kaiser / The Guardian
The Museum Built on Native American Burial Mounds. By Logan Jaffe / Propublica
The Forgotten History of Chinese Railroad Workers Rises From the Texas Dust. By Zachary Small / NYT
Violent History Echoes in the Killing of Tyre Nichols. By Emil Yetlin / NYT
How some enslaved Black people stayed in Southern slaveholding states – and found freedom. By Viola Franziska Muller / The Conversation
Louis Congo: Ex-Slave and Executioner of Louisiana. By Menika Dirkson / AAIHS
Slavery’s Indelible Stain on a White Abolitionist Legend. By Michael Jeffries / NYT
John Hope Franklin and WWII as a Crisis of Democracy. By Thomas Cryer / AAIHS
