Racism & Racial Ideas

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Jackie Robinson
Top Ten Origins: The World Series
The theatrical poster for Birth of a Nation.
3/25/2015: At the Movies: "Birth of a Nation" After 100 Years
DC Police Car in the snow
A Long View of Policing in America
Harlem, Summer 1964.
From Harlem to Ferguson: LBJ's War on Crime and America's Prison Crisis
Black and white image of an empty classroom
12/24/2014: Teaching Race in the Classroom
Black women marching with signs supporting integration
Race in the Classroom: Teaching Civil Rights
The Lorraine Motel
Putting Race on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum
The Beatles arrive in 1964 to meet their new fans in America.
50 Years Ago: the Beatles, Rock, and Race in America
Trayvon Martin was on the cover of People magazine in 2012.
Justice Denied: The Killing of Trayvon Martin in Historical Perspective
Young Child dressed in a Uncle Sam costume
Coming to America to Contribute
March on Washington
The Unfinished Struggle: Civil Rights and the March on Washington
Django Unchained movie poster
The Law of Slavery Lies at the Heart of the Movies “Lincoln” and “Django Unchained”
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner book Cover.
He Led His People Into the Desert
The Works Progress Administration employed some Spanish-Americans from New Mexico, as seen here, to work in road gangs.
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
A photograph of Dr. David Livingstone from 1857.
Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire
An image showing slaves working on a plantation on the island of Antigua in the early 1800s.
After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807
Cover of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North by Thomas J. Sugrue.
Movement North
Cover of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer by Wendell E. Pritchett.
Invisible Man
Cover of Zoot Suit The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style by Kathy Peiss.
A Suit, or a Statement?
Anti-Christian sign in Federal Plaza Chicago 2008
Slavery, Gay Rights, and the Bible
The Prairie Dog is an anti-Jefferson satire, relating to Jefferson's covert negotiations for the purchase of West Florida from Spain in 1804.
Not American Enough? This Political Slur Has a Long History
Contrabands—fugitive slaves—cooks, laundresses, laborers, teamsters, railroad repair crews—fled to the Union Army, but were not officially freed until 1863 by the Emancipation Proclamation.
In Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Central Role of Slavery Must Not Be Forgotten
“Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states,” 1861.
The Civil War: Losing the War, Winning the History
Fox News commentator and Tea Party favorite Glenn Beck addresses supporters at his "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 2010.
American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style