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[https://eji.org/news/widespread-failure-to-preserve-african-american-history/ by eji 31/1/20] | [https://eji.org/news/widespread-failure-to-preserve-african-american-history/ by eji 31/1/20] | ||
Only 2% of the 95,000 entries on the National Register of Historic Places—“the list of sites deemed worthy of preservation by the federal government”—focus on the experiences of African Americans, reporting in the latest issue of The New Yorker reveals. This widespread failure to preserve African American history is itself rooted in America’s history of racial injustice. | Only 2% of the 95,000 entries on the National Register of Historic Places—“the list of sites deemed worthy of preservation by the federal government”—focus on the experiences of African Americans, reporting in the latest issue of The New Yorker reveals. This widespread failure to preserve African American history is itself rooted in America’s history of racial injustice. | ||
=====Lynching in America Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror===== | |||
[https://eji.org/reports/lynching-in-america/ by Equal Justice Initiative] | |||
EJI researchers documented 4075 racial terror lynchings of African Americans in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia between 1877 and 1950—at least 800 more lynchings of Black people in these states than previously reported in the most comprehensive work done on lynching to date. | |||
