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Racism and Racial ideas

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L to R - Indigenous, African American, and Jewish Peoples
Ideas of Race and Racism in History
sign that states - parental advisory explicit content
Fight For Your Right to Freedom of Expression
South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid
Troops of the French 2nd Armored Division parade down the Champs-Élysées on 26 August 1944
The Liberation of Paris
Bartolome de las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice
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
Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville
A portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story
Bartolome de las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice
Generals Eisenhower and Patton at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp
On the Liberation of the Concentration Camps
Django Unchained movie poster
The Law of Slavery Lies at the Heart of the Movies “Lincoln” and “Django Unchained”
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
Anti-Christian sign in Federal Plaza Chicago 2008
Slavery, Gay Rights, and the Bible
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
"The National Game. Three Outs and One Run." Drawing depicting the four candidates of the 1860 United States presidential election (L to R): John Bell, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and Abraham Lincoln. The artist is comparing the election to a baseball game.
The Election of 1860 and Secession — to Preserve Slavery
'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict
Medical examination photo of Gordon showing his scourged back, widely distributed by Abolitionists to expose the brutality of slavery. From at least the 1860s onwards, photography was a powerful tool in the abolitionist movement.
Can Reparations Heal the Wounds of Slavery?
Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia, enslaved more than 600 people in his lifetime.
Ivy and Slavery
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis.
Apologizing for Slavery
A Brazilian man holding a protest sign
Between Black and White: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations
person holding up sign that reads, end racism
Racism, Hate and Free Speech: The Search for New Boundaries of Sensitivity

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