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Yangon, Myanmar

Pegu Club

An eerie abandoned gentlemen's club built for British officials during the colonial era.
Joel Walker Sweeney gravemarker.
Appomattox, Virginia

Joel Sweeney's Grave

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.
Ricky Grigg, unknown, Vicki Williams, and Nick Gabaldón enjoying Malibu, California, ca. late 1940s–early 1950s.
beach

The Legendary Black Surfer Who Challenged Stereotypes

In his short 24 years, Nick Gabaldón made an impact on California surfing culture that is still felt today.
Anna Kusmer October 4, 2018
Topaz Museum in Delta, Utah.
Delta, Utah

Topaz Museum

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.
Chinese immigrants, like this man in an orange orchard, played an important role in American agriculture.
trees

The Tragic Roots of America's Favorite Cherry

The Chinese Exclusion Act likely exiled the man who first cultivated it.
Anne Ewbank June 19, 2018
The memorial
Bainbridge Island, Washington

Japanese American Exclusion Memorial

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.
Visitor's center.
Gibsonville, North Carolina

Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.
Centerville, California, May 9, 1942. The family's name and identifying symbol are painted on the bags. The tags display the number assigned to the family.
photography

How Photographers Captured the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During WWII

A new exhibition examines a dark history.
Anika Burgess January 26, 2018
Pretty please with a walnut on top.
Gastro Obscura

Afghan Biscuits

These beloved New Zealand cookies have a mysterious past.
The original Woolworth lunch counter is largely intact at the museum.
Greensboro, North Carolina

Site of the Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit-in

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.
The bust of Fred Hampton.
Maywood, Illinois

Fred Hampton Pool

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.
Permanently Closed
Nathan Bedford Forrest Sculpture
Nashville, Tennessee

Ugly Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.
The <em>Dreadnought</em> hoaxers in their Abyssinian regalia, with Virginia Woolf on the far left.
literature

When Virginia Woolf Dressed Up as an 'African' Prince to Fool the Royal Navy

The irony of a racist prank that sought to show up the British Empire.
Natasha Frost August 29, 2017
Rosewood marker
Cedar Key, Florida

Site of the Rosewood Massacre

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.
Clinton 12 statue unveiling in 2007
Clinton, Tennessee

Clinton 12 Statue at Green McAdoo Cultural Center

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.
Mechanical Camel, invented by J. H. Kellogg
Battle Creek, Michigan

Dr. J.H. Kellogg Discovery Center

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Little Beaver Town

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.
A page from the Camp Amache Christmas Calendar, based on a photo taken by Mike Wada.
art

The Art—and Anger—of Japanese Internment Camp Silk Screeners

Inside the complex legacy of the print shop at Colorado's Camp Amache.
Cara Giaimo March 3, 2017