Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Philip Morgan Slave Trade

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Historian Philip D. Morgan explores the core experiences of slavery itself, including life on the African coast and on sugar plantations in ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Roots of Voudun and Slavery's Legacy in Ouidah

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From the 17th to 19th centuries, millions of African people were sold into slavery, transported on ships to the Americas. With them came spi...

Benin's Dark Past of Slavery

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BBC News, Benin , "Benin's Dark past of slavery," by Sue Branford: Few tourists reach Benin yet this West African nation has ...
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Cointelpro Documentary

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Cointelpro Documentary, Part 1 of 6 Cointelpro Documentary, Part 2 of 6 Cointelpro Documentary, Part 3 of 6 Cointelpro Documentary, Part 4 o...

The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, "Black exodus from Southern segregation," on 24 October 2010, by Michael D. Schaffer: Half ...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

John Steinbeck on the New Orleans Desegregation Crisis

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Observations of John Steinbeck on the New Orleans desegregation crisis Esteemed American novelist John Steinbeck traveled through ...
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Defying Dixie

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The New York Times Book Review on 10 February 2008, "POLITICS ISSUE: Pathfinders," by Maurice Isserman: The South, as its great h...

American Students Don't Know Much About US History

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Vivian Malone Jones's effort to enroll at the University of Alabama led to George Wallace's infamous "stand in the schoolhouse ...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Movie: The Intruder "I Hate Your Guts!"

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+ A 1962 film directed by Roger Corman, after a novel by Charles Beaumont, starring William Shatner. The story depicts the machinations of a...