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Full-Text Articles in Black History
Founding Mothers: The Nineteenth Amendment’S Place In Originalist Due Process Analysis, Tracy Turner
Founding Mothers: The Nineteenth Amendment’S Place In Originalist Due Process Analysis, Tracy Turner
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
[INTRODUCTION] During a public speech in 1856, Sojourner Truth is described as stating: “I have had two husbands yet I never possessed one of my own. I have had five children and never could take any one of them up and say “my child” or “my children . . .” One of Truth’s two husbands was an older enslaved man, forced upon her for the purpose of providing new victims of slavery. The second husband may have been a man she considered to be her real husband but was never allowed to marry. By law, Truth’s children belonged entirely to …
Iii.F.2 Safety And Security, Kimberly Rostan, Bria Harper, Jim Neighbors
Iii.F.2 Safety And Security, Kimberly Rostan, Bria Harper, Jim Neighbors
Crafting Democratic Futures
The document details the persistent and systemic violence against Black people in Spartanburg County from the end of the Civil War through the Civil Rights era, highlighting the role of groups like the Ku Klux Klan and Red Shirts in enforcing white supremacy through terror, intimidation, and murder. It emphasizes that this continuous threat of violence created lasting psychological trauma and served as a major barrier to economic and social progress for Black communities.
Do You Remember Me?: America's Racist Past And The Construction Of "Blackness", Shae South
Do You Remember Me?: America's Racist Past And The Construction Of "Blackness", Shae South
SPARK Symposium Presentations
The United States has a dark and complicated relationship with the idea of race and what it means to belong to a specific group of people dating back to before the first enslaved African stepped foot onto its shores. The lynching case of Dan Davis showcases this precarious past, as the accounts of his brutal murder convey a level of excitement that was not unusual in these situations, yet he was quickly forgotten about and cast aside like many others who suffered a fate similar to his. This forgetting, the casting aside of traumas, has defined the Black experience since …