Senator Benjamin R.“Pitchfork Ben” Tillman Justifies Violence Against Southern Blacks
In this March 23, 1900, speech before the U.S. Senate, Senator Benjamin R. “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman of South Carolina defended the actions of his white...
Category : History
The lynching and torture of blacks in the Jim Crow South weren’t just acts of racism. They were religious rituals.
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The cliché is that Americans have a short memory, but since Saturday, a number of us have been arguing over medieval religious wars and whether they have...
Black Oppression & The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
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The Mississippi River Flood of 1927, often referred to as the Great Flood of 1927, stands as one of the most devastating natural disasters in...
How 2,000 Blacks were used as barriers at gunpoint during The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
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The Impact of Natural Disasters on African-American Communities Natural disasters have historically had a disproportionate impact on African-American communities in the United States, revealing systemic...
Black Ice: African origins of the sport of Hockey
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Rewriting American History American history has always promoted the myth of the original thirteen colonies. In truth, at the time of the American Revolution, there...
The Lynching of Mary Turner
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The lynching of Mary Turner in 1918 in Lowndes County, Georgia, stands as one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in American history....
Considering History: The Role of Women in the Lynching Epidemic
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On February 14, Senator Kamala Harris introduced legislation into the Senate that would for the first time in American history make lynching a federal crime....
Uncovering the Impact of Women Slave Owners in History
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The narrative of American slavery often centers on male slaveholders, but emerging scholarship reveals the significant role white women played in perpetuating and profiting from...
The Suffragettes Were Not Allies to Black Women, They Were Racist
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This week America celebrated the 99th anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s passage, which granted women the right to vote. However, like much of American history,...
How the end of slavery led to starvation and death for millions of black Americans
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The Harsh Realities of Emancipation During the Civil War The emancipation of enslaved African Americans during the Civil War (1861–1865) is often portrayed as a...