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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
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David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
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ISBN: 9780271019932Publication Date: 2000-03-15 -
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Statutes at Large, Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature in the Year 1619
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From Here to Equality: reparations for Black Americans in the twenty-first century
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Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877
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ISBN: 9780062354518Publication Date: 2014-12-02 -
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the struggle for ex-slave reparations
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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
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Call Number: Online AccessISBN: 1439916403Publication Date: 2018-07-13George Lipsitz's classic book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness argues that public policy and private prejudice work together to create a possessive investment in whiteness that is responsible for the racialized hierarchies of our society. -
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Going down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
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The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. du Bois
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Call Number: Online AccessISBN: 1975500644Publication Date: 2018-05-02
Links
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Gabriel's ConspiracyFrom the Library of Virginia
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How Enfranchisement Stops LynchingsIda B. Wells, Original Rights Magazine, 1, no 4, June 1910, from the Library at the University of Chicago
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This speech changed the course of black voting rights in AmericaFrom Medium, August 23, 2016 by Keisha N. Blain
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Ahead of Election Season, LaTosha Brown Discusses Empowering Black VotersInterview by Elizabeth Gabriel, aired Jan 20, 2020 on KLCC, NPR for Oregonians
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Why People Rioted After Martin Luther King Jr.’s AssassinationFrom History.com by Erin Blakemore, Apr 2, 2018
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The States Where Efforts To Restrict Voting Are EscalatingFrom FiveThirtyEight, March 29, 2021, by Alex Samuels et al.
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Recalling an Era When the Color of Your Skin Meant You Paid to VoteFrom Smithsonian Magazine, March 18, 2016 by Allison Keyes
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Neighborhood poverty: All neighborhoods should be communities of opportunityFrom the National Equity Atlas
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Commencement Address at Howard University: "To Fulfill These Rights."Lyndon B. Johnson, from the American Presidency Project
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Second inaugural address of the late President Lincoln.From the Library of Congress
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The Truth Behind ’40 Acres and a Mule’From PBS, by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Malcolm X Speaks at Michigan State University, 1963Recording of a speech given at Michigan State University, Jan 23, 1963
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About N'COBRAFrom the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America
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US: Failed Justice 100 Years After Tulsa Race MassacreFrom Human Rights Watch, May 21, 2021
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938From the Library of Congress
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Land and the roots of African-American povertyFrom Aeon.com, March 11, 2016 by Keri Leigh Merritt
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Fatal ForceWashington Post database tracking fatal police shootings from 2015-2024
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A House Divided: African American Workers Struggle Against SegregationFrom the University of Maryland Libraries
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Harming Our Common Future: America's Segregated Schools 65 Years After BrownReport from The Civil Rights Project, May 10, 2019
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HOLC “redlining” maps: The persistent structure of segregation and economic inequalityReport from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition
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The Three Evils of Society, Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967Text of a Speech given by MLK, Jr. on May 10, 1967
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What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth GapFrom the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, Apr 2018
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Statement of Congressman Richard Neal on Holocaust Remembrance DayFrom Congressman Richard Neal's website
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H.R.40 - Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans ActFrom the 117th Congress records at Congress.gov
Newspaper and Journal Articles
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The Fair Housing Act was languishing in Congress. Then Martin Luther King Jr. was killed.From the Washington Post on Apr 11, 2018 by DeNeen L. Brown
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Even in Defeat, Trump Found New Supporters Across the CountryFrom The New York Times, Nov 16, 2020, Ford Fessenden et al.
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The Misperception of Racial Economic InequalityKraus, Michael W et al. “The Misperception of Racial Economic Inequality.” Perspectives on psychological science 14.6 (2019): 899–921. Web.
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Separate and Unequal: The Neighborhood Gap for Blacks and Hispanics in Metropolitan AmericaBy John Logan, Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research, University at Albany
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Neighborhood Income Composition by Household Race and Income, 1990–2009REARDON, SEAN F, LINDSAY FOX, and JOSEPH TOWNSEND. “Neighborhood Income Composition by Household Race and Income, 1990–2009.” Ed. by Glenn Firebaugh et al. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 660.1 (2015): 78–97. Web.
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A Penny on the Dollar: Racial Inequalities in Wealth among Households with ChildrenPercheski, Christine, and Christina Gibson-Davis. “A Penny on the Dollar: Racial Inequalities in Wealth among Households with Children.” Socius : sociological research for a dynamic world 6 (2020): n. pag. Web.
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272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe Their Descendants?From The New York Times, April 16, 2016 by Rachel Swarns
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Reparations bill for Tulsa Race Massacre survivors introduced in CongressFrom The Washington Post, May 21, 2021, by DeNeen Brown
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The Homestead Act: A Major Asset-Building Policy in American HistoryShanks, Trina Williams. “The Homestead Act: A Major Asset-Building Policy in American History.” Inclusion in the American Dream. Ed. by Michael Sherraden. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. Web.
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Reconstruction in America: Racial Violence after the Civil WarReport from the Equal Justice Initiative
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The Burning of Black Wall Street, RevisitedFrom The New York Times, June 19, 2020 by Brent Staples
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Katherine Johnson should also be remembered for desegregating higher educationFrom the Washington Post, February 25, 2020 by Crystal R. Sanders
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The Day Police Bombed a City StreetArticle from The Guardian, May 10, 2020 by Ed Pilkington
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Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949–2016Kuhn, Moritz, Moritz Schularick, and Ulrike I Steins. “Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949–2016.” The Journal of political economy 128.9 (2020): 3469–3519. Web.