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 Black History is Every Month: A New Literary Timeline of African-American History; Rhae Lynn Barnes on the History of Blackface; July 1941; "Girl in picket line; A Time to Break Silence: By Rev. Martin Luther King; Michele Alexander: The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration’; Slavery In New York And Resistance To It

A New Literary Timeline of African-American History

We asked 16 writers to bring consequential moments in African-American history to life. Here are their poems and stories. 

August 1619

A poem by Clint Smith

In Aug. 1619, a ship arrived in Point Comfort, Va., carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans, the first on record to be brought to the English colony of Virginia. They were among the 12.5 million Africans forced into the trans-Atlantic slave trade, their journey to the New World today known as the Middle Passage.

"Over the course of 350 years,36,000 slave ships crossed the AtlanticOcean. I walk over to the globe & move

my finger back & forth betweenthe fragile continents. I try to keepcount how many times I drag

my hand across the bristledhemispheres, but grow weary of chasinga history that swallowed me.

For every hundred people who werecaptured & enslaved, forty died before theyever reached the New World.

I pull my index finger from Angolato Brazil & feel the bodies jumping fromthe ship.

I drag my thumb from Ghanato Jamaica & feel the weight of dysenterymake an anvil of my touch.

I slide my ring finger from Senegalto South Carolina & feel the oceanseparate a million families.

The soft hum of history spinson its tilted axis. A cavalcade of ghost shipswash their hands of all they carried."

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July 1941. "Girl in picket line. Union picketing for increase of $8 weekly wage. Mid-City Realty Company, South Chicago, Illinois

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A Time to Break Silence: By Rev. Martin Luther King

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From mass incarceration to mass deportation, our nation remains in deep denial.

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