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A burning home during the Rosewood Massacre in Florida, 1923.

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Rosewood Massacre

Rosewood, Florida Though it was originally settled in 1845 by both Black and white people, black codes and Jim Crow laws in the years after the Civil War fostered segregation in Rosewood (and much of the South). Employment was provided by pencil factories, but the cedar tree population soon became decimated and white families moved […]

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Tulsa Race Riot

Tulsa Race Massacre

Tulsa’s Black Wall Street In much of the country, the years following World War I saw a spike in racial tensions, including the resurgence of the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan, numerous lynchings and other acts of racially motivated violence, as well as efforts by African Americans to prevent such attacks on their […]

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The accused Scottsboro Boys (left to right): Clarence Norris, Olen Montgomery, Andy Wright, Willie Roberson, Ozie Powell, Eugene Williams, Charlie Weems, Roy Wright, and Haywood Patterson.

Scottsboro Boys

Who Were the Scottsboro Boys? By the early 1930s, with the nation mired in the Great Depression, many unemployed Americans would try and hitch rides aboard freight trains to move around the country searching for work. On March 25, 1931, after a fight broke out on a Southern Railroad freight train in Jackson County, Alabama, […]

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Loving v Virginia, Richard and Mildred Loving

Loving v. Virginia

What Is Miscegenation? The Loving case was a challenge to centuries of American laws banning miscegenation, i.e., any marriage or interbreeding among different races. Restrictions on miscegenation existed as early as the colonial era, and of the 50 U.S. states, all but nine states had a law against the practice at some point in their […]

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The 1840 U.S. Census Was Overly Interested in Americans’ Mental Health

Census workers were expected to count ‘insane’ and ‘idiotic’ Americans for half a century.

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The Racist Diplomatic Incidents That Embarrassed JFK Abroad

The humiliating abuse of African dignitaries under Jim Crow laws helped pressure the government to finally throw its weight behind civil rights legislation.

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‘Ku Klux Kiddies’: The KKK’s Little-Known Youth Movement

During the 1920s, hatred was a family affair.

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Shirley Chisholm

‘Unbought and Unbossed’: Why Shirley Chisholm Ran for President

The first African American to seek the nomination of a major party  competed against George Wallace, the face of Southern segregation.

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2012

Florida teen Trayvon Martin is shot and killed

1991

LAPD officers beat Rodney King on camera

1990s
1992

Riots erupt in Los Angeles after police officers are acquitted in Rodney King trial

Black History
1915

“The Birth of A Nation” opens, glorifying the KKK

Art, Literature and Film History
1905

Teddy Roosevelt discusses America’s race problem

U.S. Presidents
1921

President Harding publicly condemns lynching

U.S. Presidents
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