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Panel Discusses Exhibit at Atlanta History Center on Black Citizenship During Reconstruction and Jim Crow

Here is an interesting discussion of Black citizenship after the Civil War. It is broadcast in conjunction with a new exhibit at the Atlanta History…

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The Origin of the “Color Line” Authorizing Racial Discrimination Was in Slavery-Frederick Douglass 1881

Frederick Douglass wrote about the origin of the “Color Line” that separated the races and legislated inequality in 1881. The Color Line was not a…

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The Lost Cause that Built Jim Crow: Henry Louis Gates in the NY Times

Professor Henry Louis Gates has an interesting article in today’s New York Times that examines the role of the Lost Cause and Redeemer narratives in…

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“Plessy v. Ferguson” Had Its Roots in the Destruction of Reconstruction: Article by David Cole

David Cole, national legal director of the ACLU and a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, has an interesting article in The Nation on the…

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