Black History Month Resources
"The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us,
are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do."
James Baldwin
"Slavery and the American Catholic Church"
Rachel Swarns
Suggested Resource: Podcast: Seeing White
"Race and Drowning"
Jeff Wiltse
Suggested Resource: Kevin Dawson, Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora
"Ferguson"
Wesley Lowery
Suggested Resource: 400 Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Haiti's Double Debt"
Catherine Porter
Suggested Resource: Laurent DuBois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
Housing Segregation"
Richard Rothstein
Suggested Resource: Conor Dougherty, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
"Racial Wealth Gap"
Mehrsa Baradaran
Suggested Resource: James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
"The Military and Civil Rights"
Rawn James, Jr.
Suggested Resource: Edward P. Jones, The Known World
"Mothers of the Civil Rights Movement"
Anna Malaika Tubbs
Suggested Resource: Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
"Athletic Protests"
Howard Bryant
Suggested Resource: Howard Bryant, The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
"Misuse of Civil Rights History"
Jeanne Theoharis
Suggested Resource: Documentary: The First Rainbow Coalition (PBS)
"Tulsa"
James Goodwin
Suggested Resource: Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre, Randy Krehbiel