Category: White Supremacy
New York’s Weekly Caucasian and the Development of Political White Supremacy
As someone who spends a lot of time reading 19th Century American newspapers, I sometimes come up with a newspaper with the word “Caucasian” in…
Artist Kara Walker Depicts Slavery in Steam Calliope
A new artwork in the Sculpture Garden on the National Mall is Kara Walker’s steam calliope which depicts slavery in the United States before (and…
As Black Power Grew, Violence Increased to Suppress It
Clyde W. Ford is an award-winning author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. His latest book is Of Blood and Sweat:…
Should Fort Monroe Be the National Emancipation Landmark?
Public history advocate Steven T. Corneliussen argues that the United States needs a National Emancipation Monument and that it should be placed at Fortress Monroe…
Religion and Confederate Ideology in Brazil After the Civil War
Baptist News reports on the influence of the Confederacy on Brazil over the 150 years after former Confederates and Southern Baptists went to the South…
Historic Brattonsville in York County SC Now Tells Important Reconstruction Klan Story
Historic Brattonsville in York County, South Carolina, has created a new exhibit on the Reconstruction Era at Brick House on the old plantation’s property. South…
Metropolitan Museum of Art Changes Display of Enslaved Woman by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux created one of the best known European sculptures of an enslaved woman in the 19th Century. Called “Why Born Enslaved!,” the Metropolitan Museum…
Stonewall’s Presbyterian Theologian Robert Dabney on the Effort to Welcome Black Ministers During Reconstruction
Robert Lewis Dabney was a noted Southern Presbyterian who served as both a minister of that faith and a professor of systematic theology. Before the…
WaPo Article on Labor Organizing Among Black Women Laundresses in the South Right After the End of Slavery
Kim Kelly has a new book coming out called Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor that includes a section of Black women…
Sixty Years After the Civil War, Mississippi Legislators Were Still Trying to Expel Blacks
The Washington Post has an article today on the vote by the Mississippi legislature to create a colony in Africa where its Black population could…