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Texts the dominant story under-stocked. Filterable by region, era, and theme. Public-domain works are reproduced in full; in-copyright works are excerpted with source links.
Marcus Garvey, 1923
From the first volume of Philosophy and Opinions, edited by Amy Jacques Garvey in 1923. Garvey's pan-Africanist program — the redemption of Africa as the precondition fo…
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Carter G. Woodson, 1933
Woodson's 1933 indictment of the American school system as a machine that trains Black students to admire whiteness and disdain their own history. The 'mis-education' is…
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C.L.R. James, 1938
James's 1938 history of the Haitian Revolution opens with the argument that the only successful slave revolt in modern history was not an aberration but the leading edge…
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Aimé Césaire, 1939
From the long poem first published in Volontés in 1939 — the founding text of Négritude, written by a colonial subject of Martinique on his way back from Paris. Both an …
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W.E.B. Du Bois, 1935
The closing chapter of Du Bois's 1935 monumental revision of Reconstruction historiography. The chapter is an audit of how American textbooks were taught to lie about th…
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