Past Voices
Documentary highlights Chinese Titanic survivors barred from U.S., erased from history. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
How White fears of ‘Negro domination’ kept D.C. disenfranchised for decades. By Meagan Flynn / Wash Post
Life in Anna, Illinois, a Former ‘Sundown Town.’ By Logan Jaffe / The Atlantic
‘Policing The Police’: How The Black Panthers Got Their Start. WBUR News
Black Soldiers and the Civil War. By Aston Gonzalez / AAIHS
The Great Dismal Swamp was a refuge for the enslaved. Their descendants want to preserve it. By Meagan Flynn / Wash Post
Enslaved people built the University of Virginia. Now there’s a monument honoring them. By Moriah Balingit / Wash Post
In today’s uphill struggle to combat voter suppression, remember the Pearl. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Timeline: Inside the case that bankrupted the Klan. By Breeanna Hare /CNN
Manhattan Beach property seized from Black family more than a century ago may be returned. CBS This Morning
“Exterminate All the Brutes,” Reviewed: A Vast, Agonizing History of White Supremacy. By Richard Brody / The New Yorker
Georgia’s Unique And Bloody History With Voter Disenfranchisement. By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy / TPM
The California Klan’s Anti-Asian Crusade. By Kevin Waite / The Atlantic
Charlottesville Confederate monuments coming down: Where America went wrong after the Civil War and what we can learn from Germany. By Jalane Schmidt / Slate
White mobs rioted in Washington in 1848 to defend slaveholders’ rights after 76 Black enslaved people staged an unsuccessful mass escape on a boat. By Michael David Cohen / The Conversation
Nathan Bedford Forrest Day Still Observed In TN After Leg Stands Up For Slave Trader Again. By Matt Shuham / TPM
Why Paul Robeson’s Voice Still Rings True Today. By Tayo Aluko / The Progressive
The Painful History of the Georgia Voting Law. By Jason Morgan Ward / NYT
