Where can African Americans find this lost golden age? Do we discover it during the first centuries of the Republic when slavery was the law of the land? Do we fast forward to the Red Summer, Jim Crow laws, “strange fruit” hanging from poplar trees?
Deadly weather in 2005. KKK run out of town in 1923. FBI informers mess up in 1973. The telephone industry discovers women workers in 1878. TV news is ready for prime time in 1963. Frederick Douglass frees himself in 1838. Ethnic cleansing in 1838.
"First Amendment, what's that?" in 1918. GIs sit-in, go to jail in 1968. An invasion is an invasion in 1968. KKK run out of town in 1923. Lead paint deadly in 1983 (and it still is). Trying to outlaw war in 1928. March on Washington in 1963.
The most important of all indictments against the former president: openly and long-time racist businessman and politician being brought up on federal charges by a very powerful civil rights enforcement tool created during the Reconstruction years.
In the 1940s, a series of books tried to use the conventions of detective fiction to expose the degree of prejudice in postwar America. Their books — along with Sinatra’s song and film; Richard Wright’s memoir, coincided with a surge of activism.
This book draws from the once well-known Ku Klux Klan hearings before Congress in the early 1870s, during which witnesses recounted their experiences with post-Civil War white supremacist terrorism in the Southern states.
Is the Republican Party the political equivalent of Chucky?
The discovery of a plaque showing a member of the Ku Klux Klan at the US military academy made headlines. One member of the commission which recommended its removal is a historian of the US army and the lost cause myth.
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