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fantasy-costco · 2 years ago

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My final paper for my history degree is centering around a Black newspaper from the 1870s and it's such an amazing and kind of haunting read. Seeing a long dead writer drag lost cause idealogy through the mud with actual data and calls to action and knowing that the battle he's starting (desegregation of schools) won't be resolved for another century and arguably still isn't resolved today....

#I don't have a conclusion.#I guess... Live in the memory of the people before you. I don't know.#I'm writing about black labor unions during reconstruction idk if I've mentioned that before. Specially I'm writing about #The Colored National Labor Union which is really interesting and their union newspaper the New National Era is available online through #The library of congress though it's a bit hard to read If you're not used to the format #But if you have any interest in Black history or labor history I'd recommend giving it a shot #Unfortunately there's not very many secondary sources on this union because working class Black interests are extremely under studied #But it's fascinating if you're able to look for it #Anyway I have to get back to writing. But. History is important. That's all ig.

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