Category:1619 project

**1619 project**
	2019 project by the New York Times on the history of slavery
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Instance of	project; news article;
Main subject	First Africans in Virginia; African American history;
Named after	1619;
Commemorates	First Africans in Virginia;
Genre	long-form journalism;
Location	New York City, New York
Published in	The New York Times;
Creator	Dean Baquet; Nikole Hannah-Jones;
Language of work or name	American English;
Has part(s)	America Wasn't a Democracy Until Black Americans Made It One; American Capitalism is Brutal. You can trace that back to the Plantation; Myths about physical racial differences were used to justify slavery — and are still believed by doctors today; America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others; For centuries, black music has been the sound of artistic freedom. No wonder everybody’s always stealing it; What does a traffic jam in Atlanta have to do with segregation? Quite a lot; Slavery gave America a fear of black people and a taste for violent punishment. Both still define our prison system; The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery; A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America; Their ancestors were enslaved by law. Today, they are graduates of the nation’s preeminent historically black law school;
Collection	The New York Times Company;
Inception	2019;
Publication date	August 2019;
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	Q66438352; VIAF ID: 5159518032832770537; Library of Congress authority ID: n2020038958; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987011001062105171
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Media in category "1619 project"

The following 8 files are in this category, out of 8 total.

AfricansatJamestown1619.jpg 407 × 640; 60 KB
Down Among de Sugar Cane. Character Song and Chorus 1875 025-028-000.jpg 747 × 1,000; 288 KB
Howard Pyle (1853-1911) - Landing Negroes at Jamestown from Dutch Man-of-War, 1619 - 1901.jpg 908 × 938; 683 KB
Jim Crow Jubilee (Boston Public Library).jpg 905 × 1,200; 302 KB
Landing Negroes at Jamestown from Dutch man-of-war, 1619 LCCN2005696251.tif 977 × 1,536; 1.43 MB
NYT 1619 Project logo.jpg 1,024 × 683; 27 KB
The 1619 Project wordmark.jpg 640 × 420; 23 KB
The 1619 Project wordmark.svg 640 × 420; 12 KB

Category:1619 project

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