Past Voices
When Segregation Prevailed in the US, Boys Town May Have Been Nation’s First Integrated Community. By Henry Cordes / Omaha World-Herald
The Dichotomy of Enslaved Women’s Work in the Antebellum South. By O.G. McClinton, III / AAIHS
How Virginia Used Segregation Law to Erase Native Americans. By Ashley R. Craig and Gregory D. Smithers / Time
The Buffalo Soldier Who Ordered An Artillery Barrage On His Own Position To Save His Comrades. By Samantha Franco / War History
Black twin sisters buy Woodland Plantation, site of the largest US uprising of enslaved people. By Lottie L. Joiner / HuffPost
How the Black female head of a top D.C. school was ‘punished for leading.’ By Shirley Moody-Turner / Wash Post
6 Side-By-Side Portraits Of Black Civil War Heroes And Their Direct Descendants. By Rokas Laurinavičius and Indrė Lukošiūtė / Boredpanda
The Harlem Renaissance wasn’t just nightclubs. It was about ideas. By Phillip Kennicott / Wash Post
Dorie Ladner, Unheralded Civil Rights Heroine, Dies at 81. By Sam Roberts / NYT
Retired FAMU prof barred from conference hotel during segregation. Now, he’s being honored. By Alaijah Brown / Tallahassee Democrat
The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for social change. By Vicki Crawford / The Conversation
Remembering Virginia’s only seaside resort for Black people. By Kathleen Lundy and Alex Littlehales / 13Newsroom
Rare audio of formerly enslaved people connects history to the present. By Terri Martin, Melia Patria, Brianti Downing, and Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News
America’s oldest living person, at 114, may also be the fifth-oldest person on Earth. By Anna Kaplan / Today
These giants of Black history were rivals, but time knits them together. By Theodore R. Johnson / Wash Post
‘We have a real impact’: oldest Black college newspaper in US turns 100. By David Smith / The Guardian
San Francisco Apologizes To Black Residents For Decades Of Racist Policies. By Janie Har / HuffPost
Biddy Mason Helped Build Downtown Los Angeles. Her Descendants Want You To Learn More. By Christina Carrega / Capital One
Harriet Tubman and the Most Important, Understudied Battle of the Civil War. Eric Herschtal / TNR
A Century Later, 17 Wrongly Executed Black Soldiers Are Honored at Gravesites. By Michael Levenson / NYT
The legacy of Charles v. Hamilton and Black Power. By Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
Malcolm X Assassination: Former Security Guards Reveal New Details Pointing to FBI, NYPD Conspiracy. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Thomas Jefferson’s White America. By Michael T. Cooper / Patheos
Black History Is Under Attack — Unfortunately, That’s Nothing New. By Gevin Reynolds And David Pepper / The Hill
Black Women Were Also Lynched. By Matthew Wills / JSTOR Daily
Jim Crow Was Economic Oppression and Domestic Terrorism. By William Spivey / Good Men Project
