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Racism & Racial Ideas

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Carrie (left) with her mother, Emma Buck, at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, 1924.
The Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Booker T. Washington
Picturing Black History
A photograph of Viola Desmond
Remembering Viola Desmond
L to R - Indigenous, African American, and Jewish Peoples
Ideas of Race and Racism in History
Gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos raise their fists.
We Won’t Shut up and Dribble: A Short History of Black Athletic Protest
This 1952 illustration by Robert Thom of Sims' gynecological experiments involving enslaved women is part of a larger collection entitled Great Moments in Medicine.
Black Women, Medical Racism, and COVID-19
Fort Bragg sign - home of the Airborne and Special Operations Forces
Renaming Southern Army Bases Is Nothing New
Women from Guadalupe photographed at Ellis Island on their way to Montreal to take on domestic positions, April 6th , 1911.
Black Canadians and Pandemics
Large group of suffragists on steps
One Hundred Years of Women and the Vote
Crowd photo at the 2017 Women's March in Washington DC
The Way We Never Were (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 1)
Robert F Williams and Mao Zedong
China and the Black Liberation Struggle in America
sign that states - parental advisory explicit content
Fight For Your Right to Freedom of Expression
Members of the 'born free generation' registering to vote for the first time.
South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid
In 2014, the debate about the underlying causes of "long, hot summers" remerged with the high-profile police killings of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and others.
Long Hot Summers and Separate Societies
Person holding sign that reads "Stop Voter Suppression"
From Poll Taxes to Partisan Gerrymandering: Voter Disenfranchisement in the United States
Here, a bus broadcasts the anti-apartheid message to Londoners in 1989.
Inequality After Apartheid
Occupy Wall Street and the NAACP protesting in New York in 2011.
A History of Stolen Citizenship
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Crime scene with police tape
White Supremacist Violence – An Origins Top ten
More than just peace and love, 1968 was a global clash against political and business establishments.
Time It Was: 1968 Around the World
Demonstrators protest the judicial proceedings against suspected White Power activists following the Greensboro massacre of 1979.
"Lone Wolves" No More
The so-called "Elgin Marbles," on display in the British Museum
Classics and the Alt-Right Conundrum
National Memorial for Peace and Justice exhibit, Montgomery AL
Confederates and Lynching in American Public Memory
Alt-right protestors in Berkley, CA in 2017.
Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville

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