African American history

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/20/19
  

  Black People’s Land Was Stolen

  by Andrew W. Kahrl

  In addition to invoking the 40 acres black people never got, the reparations movement today should be talking about the approximately 11 million acres black people had but lost, in many cases through fraud, deception and outright theft, much of it taken in the past 50 years.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/25/19
  

  How right-wing talking points distort the history of slavery

  by Tyler D. Parry

  As we debate reparations, we need to get the facts right.

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• SOURCE: California Historical Society
  6/17/19
  

  The Transcontinental Railroad, African Americans and the California Dream

  by Alison Rose Jefferson

  Before, during and after the transcontinental line’s construction, in southern states, thousands of enslaved and then freedmen worked on the railroads grading lines, building bridges, and blasting tunnels.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/18/19
  

  The House Hearing on Slavery Reparations Is Part of a Long History. Here's What to Know on the Idea's Tireless Early Advocates

  by Arica L. Coleman

  The debate about reparations for slavery is not a new one — and the history of the idea shows just how many roadblocks there are to a meaningful conversation about the topic.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/19/19
  

  America Has Tried Reparations Before. Here Is How It Went.

  With a renewed focus on reparations for slavery, what lessons can be drawn from payments to victims of other historical injustices in America?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/19/19
  

  Why the racial wealth gap persists, more than 150 years after emancipation

  by Calvin Schermerhorn

  When one system of economic oppression collapsed, new ones were created to fill the void.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/19/19
  

  There Is No Middle Ground on Reparations

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  Americans who oppose reparations care more about responding to political expediency than about the emergency of inequality.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  6/15/2019
  

  Atlanta History Center acquires rare battle flag of Civil War’s black troops

  The flag is the only surviving example of 11 similar flags painted by David Bustill Bowser, a Philadelphia sign-painter, portraitist and anti-slavery activist.

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• SOURCE: Lancaster Online
  6/10/2019
  

  Civil War-era flag of black regiment to be auctioned; historian says it is last of its kind

  The flag represents the 127th Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops and is being sold by the Grand Army of the Republic Museum in Philadelphia to bolster the museum’s finances.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/10/19
  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations

  “When I wrote ‘The Case for Reparations,’ my notion wasn’t that you could actually get reparations passed, even in my lifetime,” Coates says.

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• SOURCE: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  5/31/2019
  

  National Archives to host retrospective on African Americans in U.S.

  A retrospective on the black odyssey in America is scheduled for later this month at the National Archives at Atlanta.

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• SOURCE: AP
  6/2/19
  

  D-Day’s 24 hours changed 20th century, and Europe, forever

  International leaders will gather again this week to honor the dwindling number of D-Day veterans.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/4/19
  

  He Served With D-Day’s Only African-American Combat Unit. His Widow Is Still Fighting for His Medal of Honor

  Waverly Woodson died in 2005 but his widow, Joann Woodson, who turned 90 on May 26, has made it her mission to see that her husband’s heroism is acknowledged.

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• 5/26/19
  

  For Anti-Racist Educator, Teaching History Was a Calling

  by Erik Moshe

  The most valuable history is often the most difficult to find; it is what we don’t even know that we need to know that gets us into trouble. 

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  5/21/19
  

  How Lonnie Bunch came to lead the Museum of African American History

  "I get to get people excited about the past, I get to tell stories of resiliency of optimism, I get to actually do the thing I love most – talk about American history."

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• 5/19/19
  

  The History of Black Women Championing Demands for Reparations

  by Ana Lucia Araujo

  For black women, the fight for reparations is not a new opportunity, it is a long-lasting battle for social justice.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/13/19
  

  30 Years Later, Making Sense Of The MOVE Bombing

  City police had killed nearly a dozen people and, in the process, leveled an entire swath of a neighborhood full of middle-class black homeowners. 

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• SOURCE: AP
  5/12/19
  

  Alabama historical group elects first black president

  The Alabama Historical Association has elected Wetumpka native Franzine Taylor as president for the upcoming year.

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• 5/12/19
  

  The Remarkable History of the Union League Club

  by Michael Hogan

  Few remember the pivotal role played by a small social club in New York City during the Civil War and beyond. 

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• 5/12/19
  

  Jane Manning James and African American Women in the Mormon Church

  by Quincy D. Newell

  Jane Elizabeth Manning James, a free black woman who converted to Mormonism in the early 1840s, provides a little-known vantage point from which to tell a story of Mormonism that takes the church’s racial history into account.