Past Voices
State v. Mann: Lydia’s Journey. By Sally Greene / AAIHS
In 1939, Nazis packed Madison Square Garden to celebrate George Washington’s birthday. By Charles Jay / Daily Kos
Tuskegee’s Civilizing Mission. By Kenneth Smith / AAIHS
Charleston wharf to become International African American Museum. By Christine Fernando / USA Today
DuSable Museum’s ‘Equiano’ exhibit paired with Instagram film. By Darcel Rockett / Chicago Tribune
A century ago, Mississippi’s Senate voted to send all the state’s Black people to Africa. By Joshua Benton / Wash Post
Reliving a dark point in US history: Japanese American incarcerations. By Eve Chen / USA Today
First Black Congressman honored at U.S. Capitol. By Jaz Garner / CBS News
The Gilded Age’ Explores a Rarely Seen Chapter of Black History. By Dave Itzkoff / NYT
Beaten by the Klan in 1963, a Black man just spoke to the White pastor who helped rescue him. By Martin Dobrow / Wash Post
The Philadelphia Inquirer set out to become an ‘anti-racist’ newspaper. That meant taking a tough look at its history. By Margaret Sullivan / Wash Post
The Zora Neale Hurston We Don’t Talk About By Lauren Michele Jackson / The New Yorker
How Black families, torn apart during slavery, worked to find one another again. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
‘What Took Us So Long?’: Black Caucus Members Propose Awarding 200,000 Black Civil War Vets Congressional Gold Medal. By Nicole Duncan-Smith / Atlanta Black Star
How 18th-century Quakers led a boycott of sugar to protest against slavery. By Julie L. Holcomb / RNS
Paul Robeson–The Revolutionary. By Tony Pecinovsky / AAIHS
The True Legacy of Lynching Lies in How We Remember the Victims. By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
Did You Study the Slave Trade in School or Were You Out That Day. By A.E. Rooks / The Daily Beast
