Racial Equity Resource Archive

Cultural Appropriation on Halloween

11/5/23

Week of:

November 5, 2023

Cultural Appropriation on Halloween

Halloween is over and Native American Heritage Month has begun. Is there any connection between the two? This week learn about why an "Indian" costume would be inappropriate and other ways that Native American heritage has been misappropriated.

Men and boys wearing Indian headbands and feathers shaking hands, created between 1940 and 1969. Courtesy of the Kautz Family YMCA Archives.

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Native Americans Try On "Indian" Halloween Costumes - YouTube

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Cultural Appropriation, A Perennial Issue On Halloween : NPR

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‍Why You Shouldn't 'Dress up Like an Indian' | Voices of Native Youth‍
‍Indigenous students speak out on Halloween: We are people, not costumes (ubyssey.ca)‍
‍Native Americans to Boy Scouts: Stop Plundering Our Past (voanews.com)‍
‍The Improved Order of Red Men‍
‍When Redmen Aren’t Red Men | Native Heritage Project

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‍July 1, 2019: Philip Deloria - YouTube‍
‍Roots, Race & Culture | Cultural Appropriation | Season 1 | Episode 2 | PBS

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Native Appropriations - All My Relations Podcast | Listen Notes

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‍Stereotyping Native Americans - Jim Crow Museum (ferris.edu)‍
‍Playing Indian': A retrospective on the YMCA's Indian Guides program - continuum | University of Minnesota Libraries (umn.edu)

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Mississippi Sovereignty Commission and Black Voting Rights in Mississippi

10/29/23

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October 29, 2023

Mississippi Sovereignty Commission and Black Voting Rights in Mississippi

As we decide whether to exercise our sacred right to vote in the coming weeks, we should remember those who were killed or intimidated for simply trying to register. The power structure in Mississippi was so adamant about perpetuating segregation that it created a "Sovereignty Commission" that spied on Black people who were trying to access any previously-segregated aspect of life, including the right to vote. Learn more about the Commission and the groups that stood up to the entrenched establishment at great personal cost.

The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission is infamous for its role in the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers (L-R) Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman. (AP/FBI)

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EW Steptoe Greets Bob Moses, 1963 - YouTube

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‍Mississippi Moments Podcast: MS Moments 16 Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission‍
‍Journalist Jerry Mitchell Discusses Decades Investigating Civil Rights Era Killings : NPR

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‍The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: An Agency History - 2002-09 (ms.gov)‍
‍Voting Rights | Articles and Essays | Civil Rights History Project | Digital Collections | Library of Congress (loc.gov)‍
‍In 1956, the racist governor of Mississippi started a secretive commission to fight integration | by Nina Renata Aron | Timeline‍
‍Voter registration expands in Southwest Mississippi - SNCC Digital Gateway SNCC Digital Gateway‍
‍The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | National Archives
‍Brown-Tougaloo Project

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‍Spies of Mississippi | Kanopy‍
‍FULL DOCUMENTARY - 1964: The Fight for a Right | MPB - YouTube

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Mississippi Spies Sought To Uphold Segregation : NPR

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Thurgood Marshall and Voting Rights

10/22/23

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October 22, 2023

Thurgood Marshall and Voting Rights

In October 1967, Thurgood Marshall was seated as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court. In his prior career as a civil rights attorney, he was well known for his advocacy in Brown v. Board of Education, but in election season it is fitting that we look at an important voting rights case, Smith v. Allwright.

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‍Smith v. Allwright and Voting Suppression (1944) - YouTube‍
‍Smith v. Allwright and Forgotten History - YouTube‍
‍ White Primary - YouTube

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Smith v. Allwright (1944) - Untold Stories: The Cases That Shaped the Civil Rights Movement (getpodcast.com)

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‍The Defeat of All-White Primaries, 1944 | Records of Rights‍
‍Landmark: Smith v. Allwright | POLITICAL PARTICIPATION (naacpldf.org)‍
‍Texas Politics - Smith v. Allwright (1944) - White Primaries (utexas.edu)

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Can voting make us healthier? • Justice Above All (spotify.com)

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‍Battleground State: Texas and the Fight to Dismantle All-White Primaries - The Thurgood Marshall Institute at LDF (tminstituteldf.org)‍

‍The Story · Black Voters, White Primaries · The John G. Heyburn II Initiative (heyburncollections.org)

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Can voting make us healthier? - The Thurgood Marshall Institute at LDF (tminstituteldf.org)

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Pura Belpre

10/15/23

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October 15, 2023

Pura Belpre

Imagine if you were a child who loved to read but felt that you were not welcome in your local library, not that it mattered since there were no books in your language. As we close Hispanic Heritage Month, learn about Pura Belpre, a Puerto Rican librarian in the New York Public Library system, who changed children's library services forever and has an annual award for children's literature named after her. And hear from some winners of that award and what goes into their storycraft or illustrating.

Image courtesy of The Pura Belpré Papers, Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, CUNY

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‍ Pura Belpré: A Visionary - YouTube‍
‍Illustrating the "The Storyteller's Candle" - YouTube

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‍How Pura Belpré, NYC's First Puerto Rican Librarian, Brought Spanish To The Shelves : NPR

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‍Pura Belpré: Library Storyteller | The New York Public Library (nypl.org)‍
‍The Legacy of the Pura Belpré Award: Insights from Alma Flor Ada - ALSC Blog (ala.org)‍
‍Remembering Pura Belpré, New York’s First Latina Librarian, a Proud Puerto Rican, a Skilled Storyteller, and a Bilingual Advocate Who Reshaped the System to Serve Its Community | BELatina

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‍Storytime Video: Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré - YouTube‍
‍The Storyteller's Candle Read Aloud - YouTube

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‍The Yarn – Podcast – Podtail

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‍Adriana M. Garcia, Claribel A. Ortega, Vincent Tirado win Pura Belpré Awards | News and Press Center (ala.org)‍
‍Pura Belpré Award | Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) (ala.org)

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‍Pura Belpre on Vimeo‍
‍Planting stories : the life of librarian and storyteller Pura... | Arlington Public Library (arlingtonva.us)

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Pura Belpré | Dorktales Storytime Podcast | jonincharacter.com

Spanish Exploration of the Chesapeake Bay

10/8/23

Week of:

October 8, 2023

Spanish Exploration of the Chesapeake Bay

History is full of "what ifs." This week learn about Ajacan, an attempted Spanish settlement in Virginia in 1571, that could have resulted in Spanish rather than British colonization. Instead, a brutal massacre played a role in persuading Spain to cease its colonization efforts in Virginia, leaving an opportunity for England to establish the Jamestown Colony more than 30 years later.

Portrait of Sir Francis Drake on a map of Virginia and Maryland. via research.colonialwilliamsburg.org

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Don Luis and the Ajacan Mission - YouTube

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‍Scholar Probes Tales of Violence, Intrigue That Played Out Even Before Jamestown | UVA Today (virginia.edu)‍
‍Why Virginia Was Not Spanish | The Colonial Williamsburg Official History & Citizenship Site‍
‍Seattle Catholic - Spanish Martyrs for Virginia

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‍How One Native American Stopped The Spanish From Colonizing Virginia In 1571 - YouTube‍
‍Before Jamestown: The Spanish Mission and Massacre in Virginia - YouTube

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‍The Deadly Politics of Giving – Dr. Seth Mallios Interview – Virginia History Podcast (vahistorypodcast.com)

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‍Juan Baptista de Segura (1529–1571) - Encyclopedia Virginia‍
‍Don Luís de Velasco / Paquiquineo (fl. 1561–1571) - Encyclopedia Virginia

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The Bracero Program

10/1/23

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October 1, 2023

The Bracero Program

The need for agricultural workers (and to a lesser extent railroad and factory workers) during World War II resulted in a bilateral agreement between the United States and Mexico that became known as the bracero program. Learn more about this guest worker program that lasted well beyond the war years and the generally positive reaction of the participants despite harsh conditions.

Braceros, or Mexican farm workers, are shown in this undated photo in California. From 1942 until 1964, about 4.5 million Mexicans were brought in to temporarily work in U.S. farm fields. The braceros, now in their 70s, 80s and 90s, are still fighting to recover the the money that was deducted from their wages and promised by Mexico's government. via calmatters.org

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‍Travelling Smithsonian Exhibit Highlights Bracero Worker Program - YouTube‍
‍The Braceros at 80 - YouTube

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August 4 - The Bracero Program | Labor History in 2:00 (podbean.com)

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‍Time is running out for the braceros - CalMatters‍
‍Smithsonian scholar examines legacy of the U.S.-Mexico Bracero Program | YaleNews‍
‍Mexican Braceros and US Farm Workers | Wilson Center

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‍VOICES FROM THE BORDER / THE BRACERO LEGACY on Vimeo (Click closed captions for English captions)
‍ViewFinder | Los Braceros: Strong Arms to Aid the USA | Season 3 | Episode 12 | PBS

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‍amhistory.si.edu/thinkfinity/podcast/bracero_project.mp3‍
‍Podcast 3: Break-Down of the Bracero Program in cal ag roots (soundcloud.com)‍
‍♫ Bracero Program (iheart.com)‍
‍Braceros: The Controversial History of US-Mexico Farm Worker Programs with Dr. Matthew Garcia – Young Farmers Podcast – Podcast – Podtail

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‍Bittersweet Harvest: Introduction/Introducción | National Museum of American History (si.edu)‍
‍Braceros: History, Compensation - Rural Migration News | Migration Dialogue (ucdavis.edu)

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Browse Items · Bracero History Archive (braceroarchive.org)

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Mexican Immigration to Chicago

9/24/23

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September 24, 2023

Mexican Immigration to Chicago

A market in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood on the West Side. The West Side has a majority Hispanic population, including a large number of Mexican immigrants. Flickr/gabrielxmichael

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‍ Mike Amezcua, Making Mexican Chicago, from the IEHS Online Books Series, Fall, 2022 - YouTube‍
‍Chicago history: How Pilsen transitioned from Bohemian neighborhood to heart of city's Mexican community - ABC7 Chicago

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‍Why Chicago Is Still the No. 2 U.S. City for Mexican Immigrants - Bloomberg‍
‍Chicago and Its Mexican Immigrants—a Need Like No Other | Chicago Council on Global Affairs‍
‍The US Arrested Her—Then She Changed Chicago - Public Books

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The evolution of Mexican immigration in Chicago - YouTube

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Episode 25: Mexican Migration to the U.S. (15minutehistory.org)

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Hispanics and the Founding of America

9/17/23

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September 17, 2023

Hispanics and the Founding of America

Hispanic Heritage Month begins September 15 because that is Independence Day for five Latin American nations. This week's resources highlight two Spanish men who helped America achieve its independence.

Bernardo de Galvez Statue, Central Business District, New Orleans, Louisiana via Alamy

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Spanish Participation in the American Revolution - YouTube

Hispanics belong to the US | Guillermo Fesser | TEDxSaintLouisUniversityMadrid - YouTube

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DAR: Bernardo De Galvez • Our Patriots DAR Podcast (spotify.com)

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The Little-Remembered Ally Who Helped America Win the Revolution | History| Smithsonian Magazine

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AmRev360: Spain's Role in the American Revolution with Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia - YouTube

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The untold history–Season 2 | Episode 7: Bernardo de Gálvez - YouTube

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A Forgotten Hero of the American Revolution: Juan de Miralles and the Relationship between Spain and the United States – digestible intellect (wordpress.com)

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The American Revolution on the Spanish Borderlands - The American Revolution Institute

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Spain and the independence of the United States : an... | Arlington Public Library (arlingtonva.us)

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Read Aloud: "Get to Know Bernardo de Gálvez" by Guillermo Fesser - YouTube

Early Black Unions

9/10/23

Week of:

September 10, 2023

Early Black Unions

Although the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (Pullman Porters ) which was in last week's resources is often described as the first Black trade union, in fact there were organizations that preceded it or were essentially contemporaneous. Here is an opportunity to learn more about some of them.

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‍Labor Day Black History | Newsflash––black labor built this country. Here's your Labor Day black history lesson: | By The Root | Facebook‍

‍Moments in Labor and Black History: the American League of Colored Laborers - YouTube‍

‍The Revolutionary Life of Lucy Parsons - Bing video

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‍Isaac Myers: Pioneer of the African-American Trade Union Movement | American Postal Workers Union (apwu.org)‍

‍Labor History: From caulker to labor leader - PEF Communicator‍

‍Black Women Built That: Labor and Workers’ Rights - National Women's Law Center (nwlc.org)‍

‍The Colored National Labor Union, a story - African American Registry (aaregistry.org)‍

‍5 Black-led labor unions that have paved the way for Black workers' rights (chicagocrusader.com)‍

‍African Americans and the Labor Movement – Black Culture (black-culture.com)

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Labor Unions Part 1 – Black History for White People – Podcast – Podtail

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African Americans and the American Labor Movement | National Archives

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Pullman Porters

9/3/23

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September 3, 2023

Pullman Porters

It is Labor Day weekend and an opportunity to learn about what is often considered to be the first Black labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, also known as Pullman Porters.

An unnamed Pullman porter works at Chicago's Union Station in 1943. Jack Delano/Library of Congress

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Pullman Porters - YouTube

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‍Five Things to Know About Pullman Porters | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

‍Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (1925-1978) • (blackpast.org)

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‍"Rise from the Rails: The Story of the Pullman Porter" --DemocracyNow! - YouTube‍

‍Labor Beat: Pullman Porters - Ordinary Men That Changed a Nation - YouTube

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‍Pullman Porters & the History of the Black Working Class | Unsung History (unsunghistorypodcast.com)‍

‍Interludes - Men of Distinction: The Pullman Porters (google.com)

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10,000 Men named George - YouTube

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Rising from the rails : Pullman porters and the making of the... | Arlington Public Library (arlingtonva.us)

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