Category: White Supremacy
Martin Luther King on How the History of Reconstruction Was Distorted
Martin Luther King delivered a speech in 1968 at Carnegie Hall in New York to commemorate the 100th Birthday of W.E.B. DuBois. In his speech,…
Washington Post Database Identifies 1,700 Slaveowners In Senate and Congress
The Washington Post has put together a remarkable database of Members of Congress and Senators who owned slaves. You can find the article explaining the…
At Least 631 Black Schoolhouses Were Attacked During Reconstruction
According to a recent article in the Journal of the Civil War Era, there were “631 attacks on African American schools between 1864 and 1876.”…
Jefferson Davis and the Constitutional Right to Own Slaves
Many of us learned in school to revere the Constitution as a “Charter of Freedom,” a Magna Carta of rights for the ordinary citizen. More…
1619 Project Book’s History Defended
I saw Nikole Hannah-Jones speak at Hofstra University where I teach back in the days before the Pandemic. She spoke in the largest theater on…
New Historical Marker at Site of Mississippi’s 1875 Clinton Massacre
On Thursday a new marker was unveiled commemorating the 1875 Clinton Massacre in Mississippi. In 1875 forces in Mississippi hoping for the restoration of white…
U.S. Failed in Counterterrorism Operations After the Civil War
Daniel Byman is a professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a scholar of counterterrorism studies at the Brookings Institution. He has an…
A Future Leader of the Resistance to Reconstruction Advocates Confederate Enlistment of Black Soldiers
I have read a number of musings and proposals by Confederates to enlist Black men into the Confederate army. The most famous is General Pat…
The Reconstruction Era Klan As an Employer Association
Chad Pearson, a professor of history at Collin College in Texas, has an article in Jacobin on the importance of the Ku Klux Klan to…
Andersonville and the Whitewashing of History
We know of the suffering and death at Andersonville prison during its fourteen months as a Confederate prison for captured Union soldiers in 1864 and…
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