Past Voices
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
What A. Philip Randolph Knew About Jobs and Freedom. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
How to Divide the Working Class. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
