She argues that self-reflection and ongoing education are vital tools to combat the fallacy of ignoring students’ racialized experiences. And Aisha White urges educators to ask themselves, “What did you learn about race when you were younger?” before they engage with children. racial binary that endures today, as well as Black resistance as a force for political change. Historian Ed Baptist provides context on the creation and enforcement of a U.S. Listen Now Episode 3: The History of Whiteness and How We Teach About Race Ahmad Ward then takes us to 1860s Mitchelville, South Carolina, where Black policing power, land ownership and more self-governance were the norm. In her overview of Reconstruction, Kate Masur notes how-in the face of evolving, post-slavery white supremacy-Black people claimed their citizenship and began building institutions of their own. Just months after the Civil War ended, former Confederates had regained political footholds in Washington, D.C. Listen Now Episode 4: Reconstruction 101: Progress and Backlash Historian Karen Cox unpacks how the United Daughters of the Confederacy used propaganda to dominate generations of teachings about the Civil War through textbooks, legislation, and popular culture-and how, after the war, the South and the North prized white reconciliation over justice for all. The Lost Cause narrative would have us believe that Confederate monuments have always been celebrated, but people have protested them since they started going up. Listen Now Episode 5: Correcting History: Confederate Monuments, Rituals and the Lost Cause She and Kellie Carter Jackson urge educators to confront the role of this violence in American history, how major institutions stood idly by and how Black Americans fought for justice. Historian Kidada Williams amplifies perspectives from Black families, telling stories of lynching victims obscured by white newspapers. Listen Now Episode 6: Lynching: White Supremacy, Terrorism and Black Resilienceīlack American experiences during Jim Crow were deeply affected by the ever-present threat of lynching and other forms of racist violence.

Krugler delves into connections between diaspora and violence and highlights the strength of Black communities in resistance to white supremacist terrorism.

Decades before, African Americans moved North in record numbers during the Great Migration. Historian David Krugler urges listeners to call this and other violent attacks what they were: premeditated attempts at ethnic cleansing. Naming the 1921 Tulsa massacre a “race riot” is inaccurate. Season 4: The Jim Crow Era Episode 7: Premeditation and Resilience: Tulsa, Red Summer and the Great Migration

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