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“The Tuskegee of the North”
Anne Levin recounts the history of The Bordentown School–Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, which was set on 400 acre and which combined a high level academic program with learning a trade. In an interview, John Medley, a…
Read MoreThe Worst Thing We’ve Ever Done Download
On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone talks to the Equal Justice Initiative’s Bryan Stevenson about what inspired him to create The Legacy Museum and memorial and to historian Sir Richard Evans about the denazification process in Germany after World War. To listen to…
Read MoreThe North’s Jim Crow
Andrew W. Kahrl, an associate professor of history and African-American studies at the University of Virginia, provides examples of preventing beach access to brown and black people to illustrate how town’s in the North use “quality of life” laws to…
Read MoreA New Kind Of City Tour Shows The History Of Racist Housing Policy
In Milwaukee, Seattle, and Portland, tours are showing people how federal policies and laws created segregated housing and the black-white wealth gap that continues to this day. Creative solutions can be found. “Portland is also trying new policy: prospective first-time…
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