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"The riot in New Orleans--murdering negroes in the rear of Mechanics' Institute ; Platform in Mechanics' Institute after the riot." 1866. The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

“Yet Lives and Fights”: Riots, Resistance, and Reconstruction

November 12, 2016November 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson Fifteenth Amendment, reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

How civil war in the South began again—indeed had never ceased; and how black Prometheus bound to the Rock of

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Women’s History Month: The Legacy of the Fight over the 15th Amendment

March 2, 2015March 2, 2015 Noelle Trent Fifteenth Amendment, Frederick Douglass

During the past week, Patricia Arquette’s comments during her Oscars acceptance speech have ignited debate across

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