An important & rigorous report--which had significant crossover with Pres Truman's Committee on Civil Rights--that highlighted how "urban renewal" programs & the real estate sector systematically relegated African Americans into slum conditions.

https://twitter.com/Stephen_A_West/status/1601566729234063360

It showed how urban renewal led to Black neighborhoods being cleared & replaced with new housing restricted to middle-class whites & white landlords. It showed the systematic nature (policed by real estate and residents' associations) of racialized wealth transfer/theft.

Something very important about Lee in Virginia history is that after the war, when he was president of Washington College, he let students (many of them his former soldiers) turn the college's town into a haven for white supremacist terrorism & sexual violence against Black women

https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1592887339520786432

When he did confront those students (the Freedman's Bureau was watching), he punished them more laxly than students who weren't engaging in open racial violence, all while he himself openly opposed Black suffrage, civil rights, & refused to rule out another rebellion due to it.

1964 Civil Rights Act: Dem party vote included members in Southern states. When geography is controlled for, it's clear how much the historical D South weighed down overall party support. Support was more uniform across both parties elsewhere (Ds more so).

https://twitter.com/logansqjoe/status/1515862918839078918

Here we can see just how stark the difference is between the straight party vote and party vote controlling for geography:

Know that when scholars of race & politics point out how the GOP transitioned to largely pandering to white nationalism for political gain for the last five decades (and modern conservatives get *real* pissy about it), that observers knew it back then too & called it out. 🧵👇

https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1441640827487338501

At this point, it's either a willful ignorance (head-spinning rationalizations and sticking their heads in the sand) or blatant lying. And there's a lot of both.

White people casting themselves as the victims of racial violence is one of the defining features of American white supremacy that spans the US's entire history.

https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/1489997150641655817

Slaveholders fearful of insurrections & abolitionists, Klansmen defining freedmen as threats to the white public, suburban whites saying Black people depreciate their home values. And on and on and on and on. Ever the victims.

Y'all, Fitzhugh literally wrote "Socialism, not Abolitionism, is the real object of Black Republicanism" IN the source I tweeted. If you're unfamiliar with Civil War-era insults, Black Republicans is what pro-slavery folks called Rs for supposedly working for African Americans.

https://twitter.com/conor64/status/1398023206770937860

Did I do an ad hom? Sure. But 1) it's true. And 2) Magnus misrepresented me and tried to make it about Fitzhugh, which isn't what I was talking about at all. Gonna guess that primary source, being as clear as it is, is the problem for them.

If you've ever wondered why US conservatives brand EVERY Black civil rights movement communism and/or socialism, it literally dates to slaveholders who said abolitionists wanted to redistribute their private wealth. Here's arch-slavery defender George Fitzhugh in 1856:

https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1397290137994907653

Tbf, abolitionists did want to redistribute slaveholders wealth, BY FREEING ENSLAVED HUMANS being held as chattel property.

I wrote about the anti-Greek Life movement after George Floyd and the racist and misogynist roots of the Kappa Alpha Order, specifically the frat's defense of white womanhood and pro-Confederate identity. Please read and share. #twitterstorians

timeshighereducation.com/blog/us-frater… Here is the meat of the article (it's behind a paywall). Short thread follows.