by lindaoppenheim | Feb 19, 2019 | Article, books, history
In her new book, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers challenges “the idea that white women were innocent bystanders to the white male practice of enslavement. Her goal . . . was to paint a picture...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 16, 2018 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation
Journalists John Eligon and Trymaine Lee recently toured Southern states to take a measure of attitudes toward preserving the history of the Confederacy and slavery. Among those interviewed were descendants of enslavers, including Jefferson Davis, and enslaved. ...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 12, 2017 | Events, Exhibit
Julius Lester, civil rights activist, author, and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, photographed the black South and portions of the civil rights movement from 1964-68. His photographs, which will be exhibited in the Bernstein Gallery of...
