The Detroit Rebellion
...class unity. Suspicion pervaded on both sides. Until the great migration north, most Black workers were agricultural workers. When, alongside many white workers, they migrated to cities in the North,...
Juneteenth and the Emancipation Proclamation
...(2004): 1-22. “In the jubilation that surrounded the arrival of emancipation, free blacks in the North and enslaved blacks in the South rejoiced at the sound of Lincoln’s name and...
Ye Olde Morality-Enforcement Brigades
...North American versions of this boisterous practice during its last hurrah in the late nineteenth century. There were different kinds of charivari, in both the city and the country, explains...
Why Ulysses S. Grant Was More Important Than You Think
...gesture of unity between North and South, with an eye toward reconciliation after the war. But Johnson was unsuited to the tasks of Reconstruction, particularly leading the Republic in accepting...
The Case for Reparations Is Nothing New
...streets into the halls of power: The National Coalition of Blacks in North America. Why, some may ask, is Dorothy Lewis referred to as Queen Mother within the grassroots reparations...
The Gospel According to Kanye West
...its location rotates weekly and is set to go international in 2020. The Origins of Gospel Choirs Gospel music was birthed “in the storefront churches of the North and South”...
Bolívar in Haiti
...message. Δ A Divided Haiti Post-revolutionary Haiti was not without its complications. Soon after independence it would be split into two: Henri Christophe’s kingdom in the North, and Alexandre Pétion’s...
Who Were the Montford Point Marines?
...Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters—was planning a march on Washington to pressure Roosevelt to open up the defense industry to blacks. But the president resisted. The Commandant of the Marine...
Should Walt Whitman Be #Cancelled?
...old white men like Whitman who said blacks were stupid, shouldn’t be allowed to vote, and didn’t have a place in the future of America.” The performance of “Song of...
Affirmative Action: Foundations and Key Concepts
...adoption occurred in the early 1960s, by colleges in the North that were inspired by the nonviolent civil rights protests occurring in the South. The second wave of adoption emerged...