White Supremacy 
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/26/2021
America’s Political Roots Are in Eutaw, Alabama
"The terror campaign of 1870 ended the promise of Alabama’s brief Reconstruction era, allowing the so-called Redeemers to pry Alabama from the hands of reform. This was the critical juncture that led to the way things are."
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SOURCE: Virginian-Pilot
3/1/2021
How a Wave of Segregationist Tributes, from Streets to Schools, Entrenched the Idea of White Supremacy
Understanding the stakes of renaming public buildings, streets, or schools requires understanding the purposeful politics that attached the names of Confederates to public spaces a century ago, say Virginia historians Dan Margolies and Calvin Pearson.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
2/22/2021
The 150-Year Prosecution of White Supremacy
Merrick Garland's answers to quesitons about domestic right-wing extremism show that he understands the through-line connecting post-Reconstruction racist terrorism, the 1990s militia movement, and the groups present at the US Capitol on January 6. It remains to be seen if he will have the support he needs to follow through on his pledge to prosecute them.
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SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2/23/2021
Historical Markers About Notable Black Georgians Shot, Vandalized
Markers in South Georgia paid tribute to Jackie Robinson and lynching victim Mary Turner.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/18/2021
The 150-Year-Old Ku Klux Klan Act Being Used Against Trump In Capitol Attack
Ulysses S. Grant championed legislation to apply the power of the federal government against armed conspiracies to prevent the exercise of the vote. A Mississippi Congressman is now suing Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani under a provision of the law that allows victims to file civil lawsuits against conspirators.
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SOURCE: ArcDigital
2/11/2021
Phrenology Is Here To Stay
by Courtney E. Thompson
Liberal journalists have treated present-day exponents of phrenology as kooks. This is a dangerous dismissal of phrenology's origins among the 19th century intellectual elite which encourages false security that today's science is insulated from social currents of racism, sexism, or other power politics.
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
2/4/2021
How to Teach History in a Community Still Reckoning With Its Past
"For the African American community, it was still this large, looming scar, and the white community literally didn’t even know what had happened. It had just been erased. There was this disconnect in the community."
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SOURCE: Daily Kos
2/13/2021
Assassination, Secession, Insurrection: The Crimes of John Wilkes Booth, Jefferson Davis, and Trump
The use of force to thwart democracy is a thread connecting Confederate secession, Booth's assassination of Lincoln, and the Capitol riots against the certification of Trump's electoral defeat.
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SOURCE: CNN
2/5/2021
What Kyle Rittenhouse's Fate Reveals about Law and Order
by Nicole Hemmer
Historically, white vigilantism, especially against the demands of minorities for civil and economic equality, has been a key component of the politics of "law and order."
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2/7/2021
Weaponized Whiteness: Invisible Hand and Iron Fist
by Fran Shor
There is a link between the summer's BLM protests and the Capitol riots. Both reflect a crisis of a political order based on the maintenance of white supremacy and nonwhite subordination through the "invisible hand" of institutions.
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SOURCE: Public Books
2/2/2021
Museums as Monuments to White Supremacy
by Ana Lucia Araujo
Recent protest and scholarship have highlighted the knowledge of major cultural institutions that artifacts in their collections were looted from Africa and other colonized places, and support calls to repatriate the artifacts.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/30/2021
Only Accountability Will Allow the U.S. to Move Forward
by Mitch Landrieu
Full accountability for the Capitol Riot is essential lest white supremacists and other extremists take the lesson that their actions are accepted and permitted. The white supremacist massacres of the post-Reconstruction period show that moving on without accountability is impossible.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/25/2020
Strange Costumes of Capitol Rioters Echo the Early Days of the Ku Klux Klan - Before the White Sheets
by Kenneth Ladenburg
"Although costumes cannot tell us the entire story of a group or movement, they can provide a window into understanding how the groups and movements form and how their ideologies are spread."
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/26/2021
Lone Wolves Connected Online: A History of Modern White Supremacy
Forty years ago, Louis Beam had the idea of using the internet to drive a movement. Today, his vision is disturbingly prevalent.
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SOURCE: Africa Is A Country
1/20/2021
Reflections On An Imploding Empire
by Russell Rickford
Progressive dissidents must meet the moment of Biden's inauguration by not settling for what liberal politicians offer on economic justice, human rights, environment, labor, and health.
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
We’ve Had a White Supremacist Coup Before. History Buried It
LeRae Sikes Umfleet's 2009 book explored the 1898 Wilmington insurrection and showed “how people could get murdered in the streets and no one held accountable for it.”
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SOURCE: NPR
1/15/2021
When White Extremism Seeps Into The Mainstream
Historian Kathleen Belew discusses the history of the far right and the work of separating the hard core of the movement from its fringes and those who might be persuaded to join it.
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SOURCE: The Intercept
1/23/2021
Capitol Attack was Culmination of Generations of Far-Right Extremism
Historians Robin D.G. Kelley and Greg Grandin discuss the historical relationship between white supremacy and political violence in the US.
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SOURCE: Vox
1/14/2021
What the History of the Ku Klux Klan Can Teach Us about the Capitol Riot
Historian Linda Gordon urges readers to recognize that the Klan has always drawn from "respectable" members of white society, giving it a dangerous ability to claim to represent real American values.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
1/21/2021
Why the Mob Thought Attacking the Capitol was their ‘1776 Moment’
by Franita Tolson
"The pro-Trump insurrectionists seeking to replicate 1776 ignore that America has consistently recommitted itself to democracy in the two centuries since the Revolution — choosing voting over violence and ballots over bullets."
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