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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onJune 17, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Learn about the most popular annual celebration of black emancipation.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onJune 10, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Learn about the man whose case led to decades of legal segregation.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onJune 3, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: A case for saving imagery that worked in tandem with Jim Crow laws.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onJune 3, 2013
From Sambo ads to Mammy jars to lynching postcards, the propaganda that reinforced segregation.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onMay 24, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: A paper's call for blacks to support the World War II effort had a twist.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onMay 6, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Find out how a 200-pound man survived the trip in a coffin-like box.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onApril 29, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Whether so-called house slaves betrayed others in bondage.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onApril 22, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Haitians weren't the only ones unwilling to accept their fates.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onMarch 25, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Find out which popular beliefs are myths (slave quilts, anyone?).
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onMarch 18, 2013
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: A genre lost its inhibitions as Janie's orgasm riled critics.
