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Readings on African Americans

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1. Book: "My Bondage and My Freedom"- Frederick Douglass

2. Rolling Toward War: The Dred Scott Decision (1857)

3. Rolling Back Civil Rights: The Plessy Decision (1896)

4. Book: "The Black Experience in America" - Norman Coombs

5. MAP: Geographic Distribution of Lynchings of African Americans in the U.S. South, 1900 - 1930 - Southern Commission on the Study of Lynchings

6. "Without Sanctuary" Web site:  " Withour Sanctuary" is a photo documentary of proof, an unearthing of crimes, of collective mass murder, of mass memory graves excavated from the American conscience.

7. Book: "The Souls Of Black Folk" - W.E.B. DuBois

Sandra Dionisi, "Purple Hand"

8. "To You" - A Poem by Langston Hughes

9. The Vision of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr:

10. The Vision of Malcolm X:

Sandra Dionisi, "Blue Hand"


 
 
 
 
 
 

[All artwork by Sandra Dionisi]

11. Persistent Inequality: Median Family Income of Blacks and Whites,1947-1989: AGraph

12. Political Roll-Back Today: The U.S. Supreme Court Justices Invalidate 4 House Districts as Products of Racial Gerrymanders

13. Affirmative Action Roll-Back:

Sandra Dionisi, "Green Hand"

14. Does America Need a New Racial Category? - Linda Mathews.

Web Linkages to Organizations Concerned with Interracial Unions/Identity:

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