Anti-racism Resources - April 2021

March is Women’s History Month and the Minnesota History Center opened both its Extraordinary Women exhibit and continues to highlight  extraordinary Minnesota women in its online Votes For Women exhibit.   Some history articles highlighting extraordinary Minnesota women:

• Lena Olive Smith: A Minnesota Civil Rights Pioneer
• Nellie Griswold Francis: the Vicissitudes of Activism for Women and Race
• Minneapolis’ Phyllis Wheatley House served as a community center for the city’s African American community

LWV ABC’s April Book Club selection “Sisters in Hate” focuses on three women involved in the white nationalist movement.  Some other resources  related to white supremacy in the US:

• Capitol mob wasn’t just angry men – there were angry women as well  - article
• The long history of US racism against Asian Americans, from ‘yellow peril’ to ‘model minority’ to the ‘Chinese virus’   - article
• One flag, one school, one language: Minnesota's Ku Klux Klan in the 1920’s – MNHS history article

• Sounds Like Hate, produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center,  is an audio documentary series about the dangers and peril of everyday people who engage in white supremacy extremism, and ways to disengage them from a life of hatred.  Links are for online listening.  Also available as a podcast.
  • Getting Out, Part I and II
  • Not Okay, Part I and II
  • Baseless, Part I and II