Another symbol of the Confederacy falls
Bowdoin College recently declared that it will no longer offer the Jefferson Davis Award to a student excelling in constitutional
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Removing the Confederate Flag, But Not Forgetting Its Legacy
Today is the birthday of noted civil rights activists Medgar Evers and Thurgood Marshall.
Read moreConfederate Flags in the Jim Crow North
Photo: Opponents of local civil rights activists raise a Confederate flag in the Bronx, July 1963 *** Over the years,
Read moreAuthor Interview: Lindsey R. Swindall on Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism
Today’s guest post comes from Phillip Luke Sinitiere, currently a professor of history at the College of Biblical Studies, a
Read more“…they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect…”
“They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to
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