Category: White Supremacy
Podcast: The Life and Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes is remembered today almost entirely for the irregular Election of 1876 that brought him to power and for the withdrawal of Federal…
Nashville Scene Profiles Local United States Colored Troops Reenactors
The Nashville Scene newspaper has a profile today of local African Americans exploring the history of the United States Colored Troops through reenacting. This is…
Manassas Battlefield Confederate Park & Historical Vindication of the Confederacy
At its 1926 Convention, the Sons of Confederate Veterans spent a lot of time on a discussion of an internal dispute over its effort to…
New Website Tells Story of Millican Massacre in 1868 Texas
In the Summer of 1868 a massacre of freedpeople took place in Millican, Texas. Reports on the numbers killed vary widely, but all agree that…
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis, Published by Fordham University Press (2022) Freedoms…
Alabama City of Eufaula Purposely Forgets Its History of 1874 Massacre of Black Voters
The Birmingham News has an in-depth article by Kyle Whitmire on how Eufaula, Alabama ignores is history. This is a city ostensibly steeped in history,…
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…