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Real history: Memorial Day was born in struggle against the Klan

May 24, 2019 By Art Shields

The day people place flowers on the graves of fallen veterans was founded by the enemies of the Ku Klux Klan.

For Southern slave masters, preserving bondage was a global cause

December 2, 2016 By Tony Pecinovsky

Matthew Karp’s book, This Vast Southern Empire, shows that the effort to preserve slavery was not just a national, but rather an international affair.

Writing black troops out of Civil War history paved way for Jim Crow

November 18, 2015 By Larry Rubin

"If we don't tell our own story it will not be told."

Today in history: Nat Turner begins anti-slavery revolt

August 21, 2015 By Special to People’s World

On Aug. 21, 1831, Nat Turner began a bloody slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia.

Confederate flag, like the swastika, has no place in our future

June 29, 2015 By Victor Grossman

What is behind "Stars and Bars," Calhoun Streets and Robert E. Lee statues-lynchings and mass incarceration, police bullying and murder of African Americans.