This view came to dominate public thinking from 1890 until about 1940, when world events and the Great Migration began to reshape the country’s perception of race and racism. During this period, known...
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By James W. Loewen, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Vermont.
'After compiling an inventory of 3,959 lynching victims in 12 Southern states from 1877 to 1950, the Equal Justice Initiative wants to erect markers and memorials on certain sites.' campbell Robertson in the New York Times.
Find out more about the history of Jackie Robinson, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com
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Jackie Robinson made history in 1947 when he broke baseball’s colour barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
For 382 days, almost the entire African-American population of Montgomery, Alabama, including leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, refused to ride ...
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Good on the development of the boycott. But how significant to ultimate victory was the traditional NAACP tactic of challenging segregation in the courts?
Four days before Terry Sanford issued his call for a second emancipation, George Wallace offered a very different vision of the South's future. In his inaugu...
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George Wallace's inaugural address as governor of Alabama: "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!"
A vid from BBC's Documentary racism this seen tells the story of a boy who was lynched and burned alive in Texas in 1916 it is very shocking! (I do not own t...
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James Allen's photographic record of lynchings in the southern states of America.
In 1931, nine black boys were hitching a ride aboard the Southern Railroad freight train. The illegal use of the freight trains was a common mode of transportation for Depression-era workers, both ...
'This website, based on the book Black Americans in Congress, 1870–2007, contains biographical profiles of former African-American Members of Congress, links to information about current black Members, essays on institutional and national events that shaped successive generations of African Americans in Congress, and images of each individual Member, supplemented by other historical photos.'
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'This website, based on the book Black Americans in Congress, 1870–2007, contains biographical profiles of former African-American Members of Congress, links to information about current black Members, essays on institutional and national events that shaped successive generations of African Americans in Congress, and images of each individual Member, supplemented by other historical photos.'
'There is a reason why 70 percent of black teenagers, like those who died in Shreveport, and 60 percent of Hispanic teenagers can’t swim. But it isn’t due to some genetic disorder, as some actually believe.'
Cartune Classics, Walter Lantz Productions. Creative Commons license: Public Domain. For more great vintage animation check out www.animationstation.info and...
"I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera."
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'In the American South in the 1950s, black Americans were forced to endure something of a double life. In and around the home, children climbed trees and played imaginary games, while parents watched on with pride ... Leave the home, however, and in the segregated Jim Crow region, black families were demoted to second class citizens, separate and not equal.'
'Carolyn Bryant disappeared from public view after alleging Till harassed her in a grocery store. Sixty-two years later, it has emerged her story was not true.'
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