Jim Crow

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  1/4/2021
  

  The Bravery of William Winter

  by Stuart Stevens

  Former Mississippi Governor William Winter should be remembered for facing down extremists and advancing a moderate vision of change in Mississippi that centered on education. He died at 97 on December 18. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/22/2020
  

  The Latest Chapter in Mississippi’s Long History of Squelching Anti-Racist Activism

  by William Sturkey

  The silencing of journalists and academics has always been integral to the regime of white supremacy in Mississippi. Now that new challenges are emerging to that regime, attacks on academic freedom, including the firing of historian Garrett Felber, have resurfaced.

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• SOURCE: Montgomery Advertiser
  12/3/2020
  

  When the Textbooks Lied, Black Alabamians Turned to Each Other for History

  Edward Ayers and Kevin M. Levin are cited in a discussion of the gradual turn of Alabama's history curriculum away from the Lost Cause mythology and apologetics for slavery. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/30/2020
  

  Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation

  Journalist and photographer Richard Frishman examines traces of segregation and racial exclusion in the built environment of the US.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/13/2020
  

  Once a Symbol of Desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ School now Reflects another Battle Engulfing Public Education

  by Connie L. Schaffer, Martha Graham Viator and Meg White

  The New Orleans school integrated by Ruby Bridges is now operated by a private charter school company, part of a trend that three education scholars say jeopardizes the survival of the entire system of public education in the United States.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  11/9/2020
  

  An American Pogrom (Review)

  by David W. Blight

  David W. Blight reviews a new book on the 1898 Wilmington massacre and the violent overthrow of multiracial democracy in North Carolina. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/3/2020
  

  We Must Do More to Honor the People and Places Lost to Violent Racism

  by Walter Greason

  Teaching a course about collective racial violence in the United States showed a professor the extent to which this history is both integral to the nation and completely hidden from the majority of Americans. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/24/2020
  

  How to Steal an Election

  by Jon Grinspan

  Many of our election rules date from that moment, around 1900, when Americans redirected their “love of smart dealings” toward tightening up electoral systems, rather than finding ways around them.  

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/22/2020
  

  The Supreme Court Is Helping Republicans Rig Elections

  by Adam Serwer

  Historian Lawrence Goldstone supports the argument that today's Roberts Court is continuing the jurisprudence of the post-Reconstruction era by denying the racism of restrictions on voting even as nonwhite voters are disenfranchised. 

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• SOURCE: Law.com
  10/19/2020
  

  US Justices Won't Take Case Over 1946 Georgia Lynching Records

  The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Circuit Court decision that would have allowed access to the grand jury records of the Moore's Ford Lynchings, the unpunished murder of four Black Georgians in 1946. 

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• 10/04/2020
  

  A Personal Encounter with White Supremacy

  by Robert Huddleston

  A lynching in the author's Missouri hometown in 1936 demonstrates the danger of white acquiescence to prejudice and racism. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  8/21/2020
  

  Historian Eric Foner: Broken Promises Of Reconstruction Relevant To Today's Racial Justice Movement

  "Our society has never allowed African Americans to accumulate money and assets the way white families have,” Foner said.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/18/2020
  

  ‘Pitchfork Ben’ and the Jim Crow South Got Away with the Disenfranchisement of Voters. Will Trump?

  In order to win, Trump "must find a way to reduce the number of anti-Trump voters who can actually cast a ballot," writes columnist Colbert I. King.

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• SOURCE: The Marshall Project
  7/29/2020
  

  Will The Reckoning Over Racist Names Include These Prisons?

  Historians including Robert Perkinson and Monica Muñoz Martinez discuss the impact of having today's cruelly punitive prisons named for racist figures of the Jim Crow era.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  7/11/2020
  

  “Do You Think You’re Not Involved?” The Racial Reckoning of “Blood at the Root”

  A charge of rape north of Atlanta in 1912 led not only to a lynching but to a violent and total purge of African Americans from Forsyth County that lasted generations. Patrick Phillips's Blood at the Root examines the purge and its legacy.

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• SOURCE: Arkansas Democrat & Gazette
  7/12/2020
  

  Arkansas History Books Carried Rebel Slant

  Arkansas historians Kenneth Barnes and Carl H. Moneyhon discuss the political influence of Confederate sympathizers and white supremacy over the content of history books in the state. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  7/14/2020
  

  How Woodrow Wilson Tried to Reverse Black American Progress

  Historian Eric S. Yellin discusses the impact of Wilson's decision to impose segregation on federal employment, a major blow to black aspirations. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  6/22/2020
  

  American Fascism: It Has Happened Here

  by Sarah Churchwell

  A cultural historian of the American right argues that efforts to trace American allegiance to European fascist movements miss the point. There are American traditions of racial dictatorship, strident nationalism and populist demagoguery that have come close to converging in a homegrown form of fascism. 

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• SOURCE: KXAN
  6/15/2020
  

  Calls to End ‘Eyes of Texas’ Draw Focus to Professor’s Lessons on UT’s Racial History

  UT Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies Edmund T. Gordon explains how the university's spirit song is tied to Robert E. Lee.

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• 6/7/2020
  

  Excerpt: Routine Dehumanization Under Jim Crow Policing

  by Kevin Shird

  Police in Jim Crow Alabama offered two kinds of outreach to schools: an "Officer Friendly" visit to white children, and traumatizing and intimidating threats of incarceration to black children.