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- Wilmington 1898 Massacre
- *Sutton, Valentine, Jenkins - Our Communities Our Sexual Health
Our Communities Our Sexual Health: Awareness and Prevention for African Americans Madeline Y. Sutton, Jo A. Valentine, William C. Jenkins APHA Press, 2015 "Though it hardly seems that far in the past, the HIV/AIDS epidemic first gripped the nation more than 30 years ago. In the time since, communities have worked together to fight the diseases’ deadly impacts. "It’s that history that inspired the stories in “Our Communities Our Sexual Health: Awareness and Prevention for African Americans.” Edited by Madeline Sutton, Jo A. Valentine and William C. Jenkins, the book explores the struggles and successes in the black community, from public health workers and advocates to lay people."
- *The Confederate Monument at the University of North Carolina
The monument known as Silent Sam stood at the north entrance to campus for more than 100 years. What meaning did it have for the men and women who placed it there? Why does it matter to us today? Explore these questions and more in this digital exhibit by James L. Leloudis, Professor of History, and Cecelia Moore, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with research assistance from Rob Shapard, PhD, and Brian Fennessy, doctoral candidate in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2017-2019
- 1921 Tulsa Race Riot
- A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America
Fresh Air, with Terry Gross, May 3, 2017 In 1933, faced with a housing shortage, the federal government began a program explicitly designed to increase — and segregate — America's housing stock. Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation." The government's efforts were "primarily designed to provide housing to white, middle-class, lower-middle-class families," he says. African-Americans and other people of color were left out of the new suburban communities — and pushed instead into urban housing projects. Rothstein's new book, The Color of Law, examines the local, state and federal housing policies that mandated segregation.
- A Chapter In U.S. History Often Ignored: The Flight Of Runaway Slaves To Mexico (13 min.)
John Burnett, NPR All Things Considered, February 28, 2021
The flight of runaway slaves to Mexico is a chapter of history that is often overlooked or ignored.
- A Long-Lost Manuscript Contains a Searing Eyewitness Account of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Allison Keyes, Smithsonian Magazine, May 27, 2016
An Oklahoma lawyer details the attack by hundreds of whites on the thriving black neighborhood where hundreds died 95 years ago
- Amy Louise Wood - Lynching and Spectacle Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
UNC Press, copyright 2009. 2010 Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council; finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History.
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-7197-3, February 2011; eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-7811-8, February 2011
In Lynching and Spectacle, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing and affirming white supremacy. Lynching, Wood argues, overlapped with a variety of cultural practices and performances, both traditional and modern, including public executions, religious rituals, photography, and cinema, all which encouraged the horrific violence and gave it social acceptability. However, she also shows how the national dissemination of lynching images ultimately fueled the momentum of the antilynching movement and the decline of the practice.
- Behind the Veil
A selection of 410 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s. The was undertaken by Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies from 1993 to 1995, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, record and preserve the living memory of African American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.
- Beyond Silent Sam: What the Civil War was really about
By Dennis Cuddy, Guest column, News and Observer, September 07, 2018 Dennis Cuddy, Ph.D. is a former American History instructor at UNC, and in 1973 presented the first book to their African-American Studies Curriculum on behalf of his mother.
- Burned from the land: How 60 years of racial violence shaped America
Channon Hodge, Breeanna Hare, Tami Luhby, Elias Goodstein, Priya Krishnakumar, Nadia Lancy, Toby Lyles, Amy Roberts and Clint Alwahab, CNN
Published May 30, 2021
- Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom
By Richard Grant; Photographs by Allison Shelley Smithsonian Magazine, September 2016 The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways
- Fresh Air - The 'Racial Cleansing' That Drove 1,100 Black Residents Out Of Forsyth County, Ga.
Fresh Air, September 15, 2016 In 1912, white mobs set fire to black churches and black-owned businesses. Eventually the entire black population of Forsyth County was driven out, says Blood at the Root author Patrick Phillips.
- Historical Foundations of Race
National Museum of African American History and Culture
The term “race,” used infrequently before the 1500s, was used to identify groups of people with a kinship or group connection. The modern-day use of the term “race” is a human invention.
- NC Health News - Cone Hospital Apologizes for Segregation Case
Thomas Goldsmith, North Carolina Health News, Sept 16, 2016 In an extraordinary recognition of past wrongs and changing times, Alvin Blount received an apology and honors from Cone Health on Thursday for the hospital’s past practice of excluding African-American physicians such as Blount, as well as black patients.
- PBS - Slavery by Another Name
Slavery by Another Name Official Selection of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival "Based on Douglas A. Blackmon's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the film illuminates how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, persisting until the onset of World War II."
- Slavery and the Making of America
A production of Thirteen/WNET New York, this four-part series documented the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, it looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise.
- State of Things - The Green Book Chronicles
The Green Book Chronicles By ANITA RAO & FRANK STASIO • DEC 3, 2015
- Two Views On The Jim Crow South And Its Legacy Today
Diane Rehm Show, Rebroadcast Sept 5, 2016 Historian Charles Dew was born in 1937 and grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida. His parents, along with every white person he knew, believed without question in the inherent inferiority of black Americans and in the need for segregation. In a new memoir, “The Making of a Racist,” he describes what he learned as a child and how he gradually overthrew those beliefs. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson details the crushing realities of the Jim Crow South from the other side of the color line. In her 2010 book, “The Warmth of Other Suns,” she documents the migration of black families in the 1930s, 40s and 50s in search of better lives in the North and in the West. Charles Dew and Isabel Wilkerson join us to talk about racism in American, then and now. Guests Charles B Dew professor of history, Williams College; author of "The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History and the Slave Trade" Isabel Wilkerson Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; author, "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration"
- Uncovering the Greenwood Massacre, nearly a century later
In 1921, a thriving black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, burned, leaving hundreds dead. Scott Pelley reports. CBS 60 Minutes, June 14, 2020.
- Washington Post - From slavery to Ferguson, Ken Burns sees an unfinished Civil War
From slavery to Ferguson, Ken Burns sees an unfinished Civil War Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post, 9/8/2015
- Washington Post - From the Civil War to Vietnam, Ken Burns navigates images of violence
From the Civil War to Vietnam, Ken Burns navigates images of violence Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post, 9/10/2015
- Which Slave Sailed Himself to Freedom?
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Originally posted on The Root. Just before dawn on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls and a crew composed of fellow slaves, in the absence of the white captain and his two mates, slipped a cotton steamer off the dock, picked up family members at a rendezvous point, then slowly navigated their way through the harbor. Smalls, doubling as the captain, even donning the captain’s wide-brimmed straw hat to help to hide his face, responded with the proper coded signals at two Confederate checkpoints, including at Fort Sumter itself, and other defense positions. Cleared, Smalls sailed into the open seas. Once outside of Confederate waters, he had his crew raise a white flag and surrendered his ship to the blockading Union fleet. (Cate Lineberry, author of the book "Be free or die", was interviewed on The State of Things, 6/20/2017)
- ‘Workers’ or slaves? Textbook maker backtracks after mother’s online complaint
By Yanan Wang, The Washington Post, October 5, 2015 (Courtesy of Roni Dean-Burren) "Mothers of teenagers are used to getting frustrating text messages, but the one that Roni Dean-Burren received from her 15-year-old son last week wasn’t about alcohol, dating or money for the movies. It was about history. Her son, Coby, had sent her a photo of a colorful page in his ninth-grade McGraw-Hill World "