Slavery and Memory in Charleston, South Carolina
The familiar refrain after the Emmanuel AME massacre on June 17, 2015, was that Dylann Roof, the murderer, was not
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Mentha Morrison: A Story of Debt Peonage in Jim Crow Georgia
Mentha Morrison wanted her husband back. The problem was not domestic, it was legal. Jackson Morrison owed the state of
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Student Activism and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Jon Hale as
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A Brief History of the “Black Friend”
In June 2018, two news reports encapsulated a problem in American race relations: a white person says something racist, apologizes
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History, Memory, and Racial Violence in America
In April 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) opened the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and the National
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