3 posts tagged with history by praemunire.
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And the words of love I speak to you will echo in my mind
On the anniversary of Stevie Wonder's landmark 1972 album Talking Book, musicians who made it and artists who cherish it share their stories. An interactive oral history. [more inside]
1941: Chicago's South Side
In 1941, Farm Security Administration photographer Edwin Rosskam visited Chicago together with novelist Richard Wright and photographed the black residents of the segregated South Side. These images were later used in Wright's book Twelve Million Black Voices. (Many of those living on the South Side had taken part in the Great Migration from the South to the Northern industrial cities.)
“A building heavy with secrets"
In 2005, junior Harvard historian Caroline Elkins's controversial first book, Imperial Reckoning: Britain's First Gulag, resurfaced the history of Britain's brutal internment camps for the ethnic group the Kikuyu, believed to be supporters of the 1950s Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya. She then found herself working for survivors of the camps in a landmark case seeking reparations from the British government. The plaintiffs were aided by the stunning discovery at the time of their case of massive archives--1.2 million files worth--held in illegal secrecy by the Foreign Office which included files systematically removed from former colonies as the British withdrew.
(Note: many of these links contain descriptions of violence against civilians.) [more inside]
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