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The Auntie Fascists: How a Group of Black Women Defeated Walmart, the Lost Cause and the Erasure of Black History

When a group of retirees hatched a plan to save their historic Black school, they had no idea that they were creating a blueprint for legislators, museums and historic sites across America.

In the early 2000s, publicly funded museums and historical sites across the country came to the realization that they should tell the stories of the enslaved people who had lived there. A few years later, as Barack Obama transformed America into a post-racial society, white state legislators in 20 different states collectively decided to create separate…

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