HeyJaredJim the Historian
History told through real lives, not abstractions. I explore faith, law, community, and resilience, especially within Black history and the American past, focusing on how events shaped everyday human experience.
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Arlington, Virginia. Washington, General Lee and the Pentagon (opens the original)
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<img alt="Color photograph of Arlington House seen from Arlington National Cemetery on an autumn day. Rows of white military grave markers extend across a sloping green lawn in the foreground. The Greek Revival mansion stands on a hill at the center of the frame, its columned portico visib
The Fourteenth Amendment: Brown v. Board Vs. The KKK (opens the original)
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Gardner Bishop walked eleven children to a school that did not want them<img alt="https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-post-gazette/205921029/ Justice Black Resignation from Ku Klux Klan membership" class="sizing-normal" height="1481" src="https://substac
The 14th Amendment: The New Negro Alliance and Labor Laws in America (opens the original)
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At the time, more than half of the cases citing the 14th Amendment were for corporations, while less than half a percentage point were for Black Americans. The newest Justice, Hugo Black, had done the research questioning the court’s previous decisions. Eight weeks after he published this information, a Black lawyer from Washington won a case in the same Court for a group of Black Washingtonians who wanted to picket a grocery store, and he won it without the amendment, on a labor statute nobody
The 14th Amendment: The March on Washington (opens the original)
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The March That Was Called OffThere were two ways into Washington for a Black American with a grievance about work. One was the courthouse door, and the Fourteenth Amendment was supposed to be the key. The other was the street. For seventy years after the amendment was ratified, the courthouse door stayed shut, and the people who tried it learned what the men inside had done to the lock. So they used the street, and got more through it than anyone had a right to expect.<a class="image-link image2
A History of America and Canada (opens the original)
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