Past Voices
Historic Black cemetery buried below parking lot at center of legal dispute. By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
Bringing Black History to Life in the Great Outdoors. By James Edward Mills / NYT
The Latino family of Sylvia Mendez were pivotal in the desegregation fight. By Raul A. Reyes / NBC News
The ugly history behind those border agents chasing Haitian migrants on horseback. By Julia Craven / Slate
Martin Luther King, Jr. and 1619. By Robert Greene II / AAIHS
Some Asked, ‘Does Chattanooga Need a Lynching Memorial?’ By Chris Moody / NYT
Digital records from 19th Century give Black families a glimpse of their ancestry. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Robert E. Lee was a stone-cold loser. By Dana Milbank / Wash Post
Where are the monuments to Confederate Gen. James Longstreet? By Stephen A. Holmes / CNN
Alphaeus Hunton: The Fight for Equality and Liberation during WWII. By Tony Pecinovsky / AAIHS
Theorists, Strategists, and Histories of Slavery. By Diana Paton / AAIHS
Shattering the Hollywood Myths of the Tulsa Race Massacre. By Tirhakah Love / Daily Beast
The Pittsburgh Courier’s Discursive Power, 1910-1940. By Adam Lee Cilli / AAIHS
Like Washington and Jefferson, he championed freedom. Unlike the founding fathers, he freed his slaves. By Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN
Domestic Workers and the Civil Rights Movement. By Ashley Everson / AAIHS
West Point will unveil a statue honoring a group of Black soldiers. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
Remembering The Life And Spirit Of Elijah McClain. Scott Simon / NPR
Black Women and Civil War Pensions. By Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr / AAIHS
Arguments on the Left: U.S. History. Three short essays from Michael Kazin, Nikhil Pal Singh, and Barbara Ransby. / Dissent
7 Black Men Who Were Executed In Virginia Are Now Pardoned. By Jonathan Franklin / NPR
During the 1963 March on Washington, these Black girls were locked up in Georgia. By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff / Wash Post
The Black Roots of “Rights and Privileges” By Kerri Greenidge / AAIHS
U.S. boarding schools for Indians had a hidden agenda: Stealing land. By Brenda J. Child / Wash Post
He’s In Prison For Killing A Trooper. Now, Some Black Police Groups Want Him Released. By Sharon Pruitt Young / NPR
Undoing the injustices of Jim Crow juries. By CBS News
These headstones in a historic Black cemetery were desecrated. State leaders take step toward giving descendants closure. By Emma Tucker and Laura Ly / CNN
