At War with Memory
How race has shaped our memory of the Civil War and Emancipation
Untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience
How race has shaped our memory of the Civil War and Emancipation
Jesse Jackson and the radicalism of 1980s Black presidential politics
The keynote address Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave at Fisk University in 1964 drew crowds from all over the city, including some of the great Civil Rights icons in American history
Susie Baker and the drive for education equality before Brown v. Board of Education
White people raged against school busing in Louisville, KY (September 1975)
Known as “The Father of Black History,” Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950) co-founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASALH) in 1915
Blackness, Queerness, and Disco
Black Communists Fought for Jobs and Safety in 1930 Washington, D.C.
How Black Olympians turned a 1968 Olympics Cold War triumph into a momentous Black protest symbol
Los Angeles 1992, policing, and the long history of urban protests in the United States
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