During Black History Month and beyond, WHYY presents “Real Black History,” a series looking at the struggle for equality.
This episode of Real Black History features a historian who tries to counter white re-enactors’ glorification of the Confederacy by debunking myths about it. Then we turn to a Black man who performed for decades as a Civil War re-enactor, to bring awareness to the contribution of African Americans who served. Also, we’ll take a look at the era of Reconstruction and its impact on voting rights, an important but often ignored piece of American history that begs review.
0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Scott Hancock from Gettysburg University talks about his experience trying to educate Civil War Confederate re-enactors
4:11 - Rumors about Antifa coming to Gettysburg in July 2020
6:32 - The period of Reconstruction and growth of the KKK, white patrols, lynchings, and terrorization of African Americans
7:48 - Professor William Sturkey talks about widespread violence against African Americans after the Civil War, and the efforts to suppress Black voters
9:09 - Jim Crow laws
9:17 - Wilson Goode, the first Black Mayor of Philadelphia, talks about his experience growing up in the Jim Crow south during the 1940s and 1950s
11:15 - The Civil Rights Movement and the Voting Rights Act
11:29 - Brittany Smalls, the Pennsylvania State Coordinator of the Black Voters, talks about how her family is still dealing with the effects of the Jim Crow laws and lynchings
12:22 - How the Black Voters Matter Fund brought Black voters to the polls in the 2020 Election
13:50 - How Black people are still disenfranchised at the polls and House Bill 38
14:36 - Joe Certaine talks about how voter suppression for people of color is an ongoing battle
16:49 - Colored regiments in the Civil War and "buffalo soliders"
18:36 - Patriotism and Black Americans
19:41 - The Capitol insurrection on January 6
The Black Lives Matter protests and discourse in the summer of 2020 forced urgent calls for a long-overdue “racial reckoning,” a viral buzz phrase heard over and over again. The question is, what exactly are we reckoning with WHYY will address that question through “Real Black History,” a series looking at the struggle for equality against the forces of systemic racism.
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