Past Voices
The Klan was not confined to the South. Nor were its foes. By Timothy Egan / Wash Post
How King’s assassination changed D.C. in 1968. By Michael McGill / Wash Post
How the 1876 presidential election enabled Jim Crow. By Tom Hanks and Jeffery Robinson / Wash Post
Enslaved people built Davidson College and its campus. A new memorial will honor them. By Anna Maria Della Costa / The Charlotte Observer
What We’ll Be Celebrating When Harriet Tubman Appears on the 20-Dollar Bill. By Clarence Lusane / The Nation
Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy. By Ida E. Jones / AAIHS
Progressives Have Failed to Heed LBJ’s Final Warning. By Mark K. Updegrove / Time
Slavery and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey. By Rann Miller / AAIHS
Black Homeownership Before World War II. By Menika Dirkson / AAIHS
Like it or not, we all bear some responsibility for slavery. By The Guardian Letters
Applying Migration Studies To The History Of Black Fugitivity In The Antebellum Urban South. By Jaimie D. Crumley / AAIHS
Black Capitalism, Underground Economies, and the Great Depression: West Palm Beach Florida. By Candace Cunningham / AAIHS
Native American histories show rebuilding is possible and necessary after catastrophe. By B.L. Blanchard / Vox
Zora Neale Hurston’s Eatonville Fights To Keep Land to Preserve History. By Aallyah Wright / Capital B
As GOP governors obscure Black history, let’s finally tell the truth about Marcus Garvey. By Justin Hansford and Shaq Al-Hijaz / CNN
Who are the ‘Courageous Eight’ in 1965 Selma Civil Rights marches? By Saleen Martin / USA Today
Myrlie Evers, civil-rights pioneer, still marches against racism at 90. By Susan Page / USA Today
A White woman re-creates the lives of her Black ancestors. By Maud Newton / Wash Post
A Florida town, once settled by former slaves, now fights over “sacred land.” By Martha Teichner / CBS News
Audubon faces a backlash over keeping a name that evokes a racist enslaver. By Bill Chappell / NPR
This new play details historic Tampa lunch counter sit-ins. By Maggie Duffy / Tampa Bay Times
Museums and Universities Pledge to Return Native American Remains. By Logan Jaffe, Mary Hudetz and Ash Ngu / ProPublica
Harriet Tubman monument unveiled, replacing Columbus statue in Newark. By Liam Reilly and Kia Fatahi / CNN
The Real Wakanda: How an East African Kingdom Changed Theodore Roosevelt and the Course of American Democracy. By Jonathan L. Earle / Politico
An Environmental History of Slavery: An Interview with David Silkenat. By Adam McNeil / AAIHS
The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet who gave dignity to the Black experience. By Minnita Daniel-Cox / The Conversation
A Fresh Look at a Pioneering Black Voice of Revolutionary America. By Jennifer Schuessler / NYT
Black Women and the Racialization of Infanticide. By Rebekka Michaelsen / AAIHS
Rosewood Massacre at 100: Black Florida History and White Terror. By Dan Royles / AAIHS
Examining the Grand Ole Opry’s complicated role in Black history and the road ahead. By Marcus K. Dowling / USA Today
