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This past Saturday, August 28, conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck held a rally in Washington , D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial; it was the forty-seventh anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have Read More...
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Here is the final image in honor of the 47th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28. Source: Library of Congress (digital id: ppmsca 03128) 47th Anniversary of the March Read More...
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I've been re-reading Taylor Branch's Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 , and I had forgotten this anecdote about W.E.B. Du Bois, the eminent historian. Someone congratulated him Read More...
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Should Black History Month be abolished? In a 2005 interview for the TV program 60 Minutes , actor Morgan Freeman ( Batman Begins , Driving Miss Daisy ) said, "I don't want a Black History Month. Black Read More...
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I decided to revisit the novel Kindred by Octavia Butler this past week. It's an admirable book, one that I've considered assigning in my classes (the length always makes me hesitate.) If you haven't read Read More...
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Civil rights activists on the march for voting rights from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. Source: Library of Congress (cph 3d02329) Read about Wordless Wednesday . Wordless Wednesday Read More...
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Can you go too far in trying to make the past alive for students? That was the question that emerged recently from a controversy in Georgia over allowing students to dress up as Klansmen. I asked this Read More...
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Most historians tend to avoid writing about recent events, seeing it as belonging to the domain of journalists rather than historians. But the "aughts" have already become a significant coda for African-American Read More...
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In 1899, the Afro-American Council, a national organization dedicated to civil rights, asked African-American ministers to set aside part of their services on Sunday, June 4, to pray that God would right Read More...
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Teachers are always looking for ways to make history come alive for their students, but this well-meaning impulse can do more harm than good. Two Atlanta-area teachers, in separate incidents , recently Read More...
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It's not just Texas messing with history any more. Arizona has declared war on ethnic studies. Governor Jan Brewer recently signed a law denying a portion of state funding to schools that offer classes Read More...
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You may have learned in school that Rosa Parks was an ordinary woman who decided one day on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus that she was simply too tired to obey the city's segregation law. Montgomery law mandated Read More...
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The latest exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History features the stories behind Harlem's history-drenched Apollo Theater. And you may be surprised to learn its history: the Apollo Read More...
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Texans proudly proclaim, "don't mess with Texas" as a reminder of the prominent place the Alamo has in their state's history. But, conservatives on the Texas Board of Education have been messing with the Read More...
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On a February afternoon in 1960, four African-American college students sat down at a whites-only lunch counter inside a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. They respectfully asked for coffee. When Read More...
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