Brown v. Board of Education: Annotated
...It is true that public school education at the time of the Amendment had advanced further in the North, but the effect of the Amendment on Northern States was generally...
Even the Best Jim Crow School…Was Still a Jim Crow School
...“Blacks in New Jersey had been debating the merits of school integration for more than half a century, especially in the southern region of the state, where whites aggressively enforced...
Using Data to Discover and Explore the Stories of Enslaved People
...not have thought to look in the collections of a Louisiana university archive for the stories of formerly enslaved people in North Carolina or Florida. Albert Todd, to take one...
The First Famous Football Team Behind Bars
...of the year. However, a mere 30 miles north of LSU in Jackson, Louisiana, a group of incarcerated individuals suit up in purple and gold every November for Dixon Correctional...
Secret Societies and the Fight for Black Freedom
...(150,000).” These organizations “not only [aided] in the transition of blacks from slavery to freedom, but also from farm to factory and from the South to the urban North and...
Asian South America
...since over the European naming of Indigenous people of the Caribbean, and then North and South America, as Indians. Globalization being centuries old, the movement of people coexisted alongside trade—even...
The Reverse Freedom Rides
...a seat in the US Senate: “President Kennedy’s brother assures you a grand reception to Massachusetts.” The trips north would serve several political purposes, according to the man who thought...
A Colorblind Compromise?
...state, then states with more enslaved people would also have a higher tax liability. Revisiting this fateful debate, scholar and sociologist Kasey Henricks writes: “This framing positioned the North to...
The Scholars Charting Black Music’s Timeline: Earl Stewart and Michael Veal
...discuss the long lineage of music as it stretches from the African continent to North America via the slave trade. Blending their music with European musical forms, enslaved Africans—and later...
Northern Civil Rights and Republican Affirmative Action
Histories of the US Civil Rights era concentrate on the South, where customary and legal racial segregation was most manifest, and most murderous. What happened in the North? Plenty, writes...