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Ruin and Redemption Reviewed by John Egerton Vol. 18, No. 1, 1996 pp. 20-21 Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood by Michael D’Orso (Grosset-Putnam, 1996, 373 pages). What happened in the backwoods village of
Which Came First, the Statue or the Oppression? By James W. Loewen Vol. 21, No. 3, 1999 pp. 10, 27 Below is an excerpt from James Loewen’s most recent book, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites and Monuments Get
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And They Will Come: School of the Americas Protest Gains Momentum By Gale Greenlee Vol. 21, No. 4, Winter 1999 pp. 1, 6-7 In the beginning, only a faithful few gathered outside the gates of the Fort Benning military base
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Many Birminghams: Taking Segregationists Seriously Reviewed by David J. Garrow Vol. 23, No. 2, 2001 pp. 26-32 REVIEWS Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home, Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2001. Charles
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Hate in the News: Violence Against Arab Americans and Muslims Kelvin Datcher, Southern Poverty Law Center Vol. 23, No. 3-4, 2001 pp. 8-9 In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September
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“Return to Sender”Confronting Lynching and Our Haunted Landscapes By Mark Auslander Vol. 24, No. 1-2, 2002 pp. 4-7 Last year, I took a walk in the woods with a friend, an African-American man in his fifties whom I will call
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Communities Lifting the Veil of Silence Staff Vol. 24, No. 1-2, 2002 pp. 8-9 The 1898 Foundation, Wilmington, NC During Reconstruction, some African Americans in Wilmington, North Carolina were able to achieve a degree of financial and professional success. In
The People Behind the Profile: Stories of Racial Profiling Staff Vol. 24, No. 3-4, 2002 p. 8 The Campaign Against Racial Profiling is a project of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a nationwide non-partisan organization of 300,000 members dedicated
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Embracing Thanatos: The War Machine and the Bush Administration By Dan T. Carter Vol. 25, No. 1-4, 2003 pp. 4-5 This year, Congress is on track to approve a Bush administration defense budget of $400 billion, a figure meaning that
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