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Data Visualizations

  • The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes, The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
  • Civil War Monuments, How, when, and where the North and South memorialize the conflict.
  • Map of White Supremacy mob violence, the lynchings and riots to enforce racial superiority in the US

Lynching (Note: graphic, disturbing content)

  • Without Sanctuary, collector James Allen has found photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at lynchings throughout America
  • Lynchings by states and counties in the United States, 1900-1931
  • Three Lynchings, Three Photographs
  • The sadism of white men Why America must atone for its lynchings
  • New Lynching Memorial Is A Space ‘To Talk About All Of That Anguish’

Mass Incarceration

  • Books: The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
    Slavery by Another Name, Douglas A Blackmon
  • Breaking Down Mass Incarceration in the 2010 Census
  • Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Promised a Criminal Justice Revolution. He’s Exceeding Expectations.
  • There was no wave of compassion when addicts were hooked on crack
  • Why We Never Talk About Black-on-Black Crime: An Answer to White America’s Most Pressing Question

Primary Sources:

  • Excerpts from Slave Narratives
  • The Diary of Bennet H. Barrow, Louisiana Slaveowner
  • Daily Life on a Colonial Plantation, 1709-11
  • What Robert E. Lee wrote to the Times about slavery in 1858?
  • Documents of the Confederate States of America
  • Emancipation Digital Classroom
  • The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, Autobiographical Sketch, Richard Wright
  • “A Talk to Teachers”, James Baldwin
  • Letter from Birmingham Jail (abridged)
  • The Civil Rights Movement fraud, sham and hoax 1964, George Wallace

Redlining

  • Book: The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein
  • Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America
  • Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC Maps)
  • DETROITography and Detroit Geographic Expedition and Institute

Social Justice Initiatives

  • The Marshall Project, nonprofit journalism about criminal justice
  • Equal Justice Initative, private, nonprofit organization that challenges poverty and racial injustice…
  • The Truth Telling Project, A Truth Initiative Regarding Structural Violence and Racism
  • Black Lives Matter, it’s more than a hashtag battle, it’s a movement

Rondo

  • Before it was cut in half by I-94, St. Paul’s Rondo was a thriving African-American cultural center
  • Rondo Oral History Project
  • Central Corridor: In the shadow of Rondo

Philando Castile

  • Comprehensive overview of the shooting of Philando Castile
  • Philando Castile remembered as warm, quiet, loved by students
  • The view from Philando Castile’s empty seat on the porch
  • A retracing of steps: Castile’s funeral procession through Rondo
  • Philando Castile Had Been Stopped 52 Times by Police
  • Officer’s lawyer: Castile pulled over because he matched robbery suspect
  • Is Philando Castile the Ultimate Casualty of Driving While Black?
  • Old Questions But No New Answers in the Philando Castile Verdict
  • Philando Castile Family Reaches $3 Million Settlement
  • Yanez Leaves Police Department Under Separation Agreement
  • Diamond Reynolds: the woman who streamed a police shooting becomes a Renaissance Madonna

Coming soon: Voting and Scientific Racism/Eugenics

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