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Subversive Historian – 11/10/09

The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 Back in the day on November 10th, 1898, the Wilmington Race Riot occurred in North Carolina. At least twenty-two blacks were killed by white racist members of the Democratic Party as a municipal coup d’etat was staged. Emboldened by a post-reconstruction general election that brought the party back in power [...]

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Subversive Historian – 06/01/09

The End of the Tulsa Race Riot Back in the day on June 1st, 1921, rioting by white mobs against blacks in Tulsa, Oklahoma ceased after the National Guard enforced martial law. In what was one of the most tragic episodes of racist violence in the U.S., the Tulsa Race Riot claimed the lives of [...]

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Mumia on John Hope Franklin

More than a week ago, the great Afican-American historian John Hope Franklin passed away. A man of great scholarship and of great accomplishments, Franklin not only recorded the past struggles and triumphs of his people but participated in the history of now making possible the changes that historians of the future will pen. President Barack [...]

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John Hope Franklin: A True Subversive Historian

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWkCnd6F_2I] John Hope Franklin, the most preeminent and pioneering scholar of African-American history, died Wednesday at the age of 94. As a historian, Franklin’s long life bore witness to many of the most important moments in the history of race relations in the United States. The grandson of a slave, he was born and raised in [...]

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