Resistance - AAIHS

Rosewood Massacre at 100: Black Florida History and White Terror

February 27, 2023February 26, 2023 Dan Royles Racial Violence, racism

A version of the following comments was delivered at the opening of the exhibit An Elegy to Rosewood at the

Black Los Angeles and the LAPD in the Early 1960s

February 21, 2023February 20, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black politics, police brutality, police violence

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other city officials could have prevented the Watts Rebellion in August 1965 had they addressed the concerns

The Racist Origins of the Real ID Act

February 20, 2023February 19, 2023 Bea Abbott carceral state, Politics, race, racism

As of May 2023, a passport or driver’s license which proves legal residence in the U.S. will be needed to

HBCUs and the Red Scare

February 14, 2023February 13, 2023 Candace Cunningham Activism, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, South

In the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, racial tensions rose as African Americans began immediately submitting school desegregation

Black Virginians and the American Revolution

February 13, 2023February 12, 2023 Adam McNeil black politics, slavery

In the summer of 1782, nearly nine months after Patriot victory at the Battle of Yorktown during the US War