History of Black America
Blacks faced some of the most vicious aspects of the backlash against working-class militancy after the First World War.
May 25, 2012 : Christina Bergmark In the face of systematic racism, the "back to Africa" ideas of Marcus Garvey struck a chord in early 20th century America.
May 18, 2012 : Lance Selfa Booker T. Washington's "self-help" philosophy argued against political action and for an accommodation with racism.
May 11, 2012 : Christina Bergmark Racism at home has always been tied to racism abroad--so the fight against both forms of bigotry must be linked.
May 4, 2012 : Nancy MacLean The Populist struggle brought together Blacks with poor whites in a challenge against the Southern elite.
April 27, 2012 : Nancy MacLean Contrary to the racist myths that live on today, Reconstruction was one of the greatest experiments in democracy the U.S. has ever seen.
April 20, 2012 : Lance Selfa and Alan Maass We're told that Abraham Lincoln "freed the slaves," but it's important to remember what slaves did to free themselves.
April 13, 2012 : Marlene Martin The murder of Trayvon Martin has obvious parallels with the lynching of Emmett Till by racists in 1950s Mississippi.
April 3, 2012 : Deborah Roberts From the beginning of European settlement in the Americas, slavery played an essential role in capitalism's development.
March 30, 2012 : Kathy Stewart Slavery was abolished in the 1860s, but its legacy of racism persists to this day because it is useful to the ruling class.
March 23, 2012 : Mark Clements We need a struggle against discrimination today like the Montgomery bus boycott that defeated segregation in the 1950s.
March 14, 2012 : Martin Luther King Jr. A speech King gave three weeks before he was shot focused on issues of racism, poverty and war that are still with us today.
March 14, 2012 : Bill Hampton In a 1977 interview, Fred Hampton's brother describes the government's campaign against the slain Black Panther leader.
March 2, 2012 : Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor In the early 1960s, a mass movement of Black parents and school-aged children in Northern cities demanded integrated and equal education.
February 22, 2012 : Dan Georgakas Newspapers played a vital role in organizing the League of Revolutionary Black Workers during the upsurge of the 1960s and '70s.
February 17, 2012 : Marlene Martin The story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott is not just about its leaders, but a mass movement that depended on tens of thousands of people.
February 9, 2012 In honor of Black History Month, I'd like to briefly highlight two Black socialists, Lucy Parsons and A. Phillip Randolph.
February 7, 2012 : Alan Maass The Black Power movement was a magnificent high point of African American resistance--one that inspired and shaped radicals for years to come.
October 25, 2011 : Lee Wengraf September 9 marks the 40th anniversary of the most important prison uprising in U.S. history--the rebellion at Attica in upstate New York.
September 9, 2011 Far from being "pointless violence" the Black urban rebellions of the 1960s changed the direction of U.S. politics.
August 12, 2011 A controversial biography by the late Manning Marable provides a fascinating account of Malcolm X's life story and political development.
May 24, 2011 : Ahmed Shawki and Retha Hill Nearly 30 people, most children, found dead in the same city in less than two years. But the media barely noticed--because the victims were poor and Black.
April 15, 2011 : Alan Maass The great struggle to end slavery in the U.S. South began many decades before the first shots of the American Civil War were fired in April 1861.
April 12, 2011 : Joseph "Jazz" Hayden A former Attica prisoner discusses the historic prison rebellion on its 40th anniversary and what it means for prison activists today.
March 17, 2011 : James Illingworth The U.S. elite has clung to a vision of the "Old South" that included mint juleps, Southern belles and happy slaves. The reality is exactly the opposite.
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