Pride and protest’s inexorable link

Plus: Voter registration and Confederate statues |

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. SUBSCRIBE to TIME Magazine June 25, 2020 By Lily Rothman June is typically a time for many to take to the streets for parades and marches celebrating LGBTQ Pride, but this month has been different. COVID-19 has put a stop to many gatherings, and those who take to the streets have often done so not in celebration but in protest. Yet as Suyin Haynes wrote for TIME this week, that shift is not actually a departure from the past of the LGBTQ-rights movement. In fact, the struggle against racism and police brutality is inextricable from LGBTQ history. Click here to read more. Here's more of the history that made news this week: HISTORY ON TIME.COM When U.S. Immigration Policy Toward Mexican Migrants Changed The magnitude and regularity of deportations after 1975 marked a break from the past and the dawn of a new era A Tulsa Race Massacre Descendant Reacts to Trump's Rally "The President is not qualified to tell our stories. So, we're going to tell our own," Tiffany Crutcher told TIME Educators Grapple With Teaching the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Teaching about this history is fairly new even to many educators in Tulsa. Here's how they're approaching it The Civil War Wasn't America's Only War Involving Slavery More important, more direct and much less well-publicized was the impact of slavery in instigating the American Revolution Column: The Racist History of Voter Registration Throughout American history, voter registration has never just been about keeping track of voters. It has also been about keeping some of those voters from voting FROM THE TIME VAULT Today in 1951: Sugar Ray Robinson “By last week Sugar Ray Robinson had gone through three fight days since he arrived in Europe last month for his second triumphal tour of the Continent. In the process he has handily polished off some of the best of Europe's middleweights: De Bruin, Kid Marcel, Jean Wanes. At week's end he made it four in a row by defeating France's ex-welterweight champion Jean Walzack. Far from resenting it, Europeans have made ‘Le Sucre Merveilleux’ their newest, most clamorously idolized hero. As a combination boulevardier, Damon Runyon Fund frontman and one-man boxing stable, Robinson is Paris' No. 1 celebrity in residence.’” (June 25, 1951) Read the full story This Week in 1978: Women in Sports “At eight, Kim Edwards is in the incubator of the national pastime—tee-ball. There are no pitchers in this pre-Little League league. The ball is placed on a waist-high, adjustable tee, and for five innings the kids whack away. Kim is one of the hottest tee-ball players in Dayton and a fanatical follower of the Cincinnati Reds. Her position is second base. She pulls a Reds cap down over her hair, punches her glove, drops her red-jacketed arms down to rest on red pants, and waits for the action. Kim has but a single ambition: to play for her beloved Reds. When a male onlooker points out that no woman has ever played big league baseball, Kim's face, a mass of strawberry freckles, is a study in defiant dismissal: ‘So?’" (June 26, 1978) Read the full story This Week in 1972: The Camera Craze “The new popularity is transforming photography from mere hobby to a natural, even essential way of looking at the world and capturing life as it is. Photo galleries, many selling the work of professionals at $25 per print and up, have opened by the dozen in large cities. The craft has found some of its most devoted followers among the young, who increasingly strive to document their own new lifestyles and find photography, with its blending of technology and aesthetics, an honest way to do so.” (June 26, 1972) Read the full story HIGHLIGHTS FROM AROUND THE WEB On Deck At The Nation, John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro tell the story of a surprising moment in 1925, when segregated Wichita, Kan., hosted a baseball game in which an all-Black team beat the KKK. Powerful Symbols Historian Keisha N. Blain argues at the Washington Post that the idea that protecting Confederate statues is protecting history actually has it backwards. Bad Advice History Today asked four historians to weigh in on the question of who was the worst political adviser ever. Here are their answers. Underground History A local Texas historian has become the authority on historic cemeteries at the Southern border—which means he’s also the expert on helping make sure the construction of a border wall doesn’t disturb them. Sandra Sanchez has the story at Border Report. Land of Lincoln Though many people think of slavery as a specifically Southern part of American history, Logan Jaffe explains at Mother Jones that such was not the case, and speaks to an Illinois teacher about why that state’s slave-holding history is so rarely discussed. To Unsubscribe Unsubscribe here if you do not want to receive this newsletter. Update Email Click here to update your email address. Privacy Policy Please read our Privacy Policy. TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice. 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