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Remembering John Brown

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Examining how vital information about John Brown has been twisted or omitted in response to oppressed peoples’ response to him may help us to more truthfully “remember John Brown” and connect him with other “immortal raiders” and activists who have fought white supremacy. And while it may be easy to assume that historians, artists, and everyday people have grown more sympathetic toward John Brown over time, the contested memory of Brown challenges the myth that Americans have become more progressive on racial politics and education.

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The Show Must Go On: Davarian L. Baldwin on The Great Migration: The Meaning Behind the Movement

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Primary Source: “Strange Fruit” Recorded by Billie Holiday (1939)  Discussion Questions  What was the major social impact of the Great Migration? Identify the major push and full factors of movement? How does Strange Fruit use imagery to explore the South as a place of terror? Want more of “The Show Must Go On” series? Click below to… MORE

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“Long After the War is Over”: Mutual Housing in the United States

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Since their inception, the mutual programs of the 1940s were created as secondary to individual private homeownership, which has persisted as the dominant model in the decades since. While mutual or cooperative housing has taken various forms, the term typically denotes a buyer purchasing a share in a not-for-profit mutual association where the association (made up of the residents) owns and controls the houses and land.

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