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Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan: the story behind the photograph that shamed America | The Telegraph

September 4, 2019September 4, 2019

David Margolick, The Telegraph Elizabeth Eckford (right) attempts to enter Little Rock High School on Sept. 4, 1957, while Hazel Bryan (left) and other segregationists protest. Featured Image On her first morning of school, September 4 1957, Elizabeth Eckford’s primary concern was looking nice. Her mother had done her hair the night before; an elaborate […]

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Dr. Samuel Kountz, 51, Dies; Leader In Transplant Surgery | The New York Times (Dec., 1981)

September 3, 2019September 3, 2019

Lawrence K. Altman, The New York Times Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collection of the Medical Research Library at SUNY Downstate Center, Kountz History Collection. Featured Image About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these […]

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Overlooked | The New York Times

September 2, 2019September 2, 2019

These remarkable black men and women never received obituaries in The New York Times — until now. We’re adding their stories to our project about prominent people whose deaths were not reported by the newspaper.

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Dismantling the Myth of the “Black Confederate” | Slate

September 2, 2019September 2, 2019

A new book explores the false—yet oddly ubiquitous—belief that black men fought for the South during the Civil War.

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Dred Scott Decision: The Case and Its Impact | ThoughtCo.

August 30, 2019August 30, 2019

Ben Solis, ThoughtCo. Dred Scott v. Sandford, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, declared that black people, whether free or slave, could not be American citizens and were thus constitutionally unable to sue for citizenship in the federal courts. The Court’s majority opinion also declared that the 1820 Missouri Compromise was […]

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White women were colonisers too. To move forward, we have to stop letting them off the hook | The Guardian

August 30, 2019August 30, 2019

We will never understand the impact of colonial oppression if we underestimate white women’s role in it, writes Ruby Hamad

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‘Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master’ | GOOD.IS

August 30, 2019August 30, 2019

Anderson’s letter showed compassion, defiance, and dignity.

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Marian Anderson: The Most Modest Trailblazer | NPR

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019

Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR An undated portrait of America contralto Marian Anderson at her home. London Express/Getty Images. Featured Image Classical singer Marian Anderson was one of the all-time greats — both as an artist, and as a cultural figure who broke down racial barriers. She is best known for performing at the Lincoln Memorial in […]

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Director Roger Ross Williams On Emmy-Nominated VR Film ‘Traveling While Black’: “It’s A Big Moment” | Deadline

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019

Director Roger Ross Williams on his Emmy-nominated project: “You get to be in a Black space that you normally wouldn’t have access to.”

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What Do You Do After Surviving Your Own Lynching? | Buzzfeed

August 28, 2019August 28, 2019

The most iconic image of racist brutality in America would have looked different had James Cameron not survived a lynching attempt in Indiana in 1930. He devoted the rest of his life not just to civil rights, but to memorializing the moment of his near death.

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