History of racism in the United States (nonfiction)

This article chronicles the history of racism in the United States.

Andrew Johnson: "This is a country for white men"

Trymaine Lee observes:

When Lincoln was assassinated, Vice President Andrew Johnson effectively rescinded Sherman’s order by pardoning white plantation owners and returning to them the land on which 40,000 or so black families had settled. "This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government for white men," Johnson declared in 1866.

— How a vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America by Trymaine Lee @ New York Times (August 14, 2019)

Fiction cross-reference

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Nonfiction cross-reference

External links:

• How a vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America by Trymaine Lee @ New York Times (August 14, 2019)