Jones, William

Price, Haley

Scott, Alina

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The past is never dead. It's not even pastNOT EVEN PASTSearch the site ...  Like 12 TweetViolence Against Black People inAmerica: A ClioVis TimelineBy Haley Price, William Jones, and Alina ScottThe brutal killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis this summer marked a keyevent in the history of violence against Black Americans. But it was just one of manyacts of violence that have been committed in American history. In order to put Floyd’skilling into a larger historical context, our Digital History intern, Haley Price, created fourClioVis timelines to help herself and others learn more about such violence. Alina Scott,a graduate student in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin and Dr.William Jones, a recent Ph.D. from Rice University, also worked on the timelines, addingrelevant scholarship to many of the events to assist readers who want to learn more.Below, Haley, Alina, and Will introduce the timeline by telling us how the timelines werecompiled, what they learned in making them, and how they think the timelines can serveas a resource for others. While the timelines are not comprehensive, they provideviewers with a sense of the historical forces at play across time and illustrate how themurder of George Floyd in the summer of 2020  ts into a larger pattern of historicalviolence.As readers will see, there are four timelines. We originally started making one timeline.But, as the number of events grew, we decided to break the larger timeline into threeseparate timelines. You now see an “Overview” timeline that includes 153 events. Wethen divided the overview timeline into three thematic timelines: “Slavery in America,”“Jim Crow to Civil Rights,” and “Police and Civilian Brutality.”· · ·Introduction By Haley PriceThe purpose of these timelines is to visualize the history of Black Americans and toconnect the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests to their historical context. Even as aHistory and Humanities major, this part of US history was still very new to me. I hadlearned about “Jim Crow Laws,” “The Great Migration, and “The March on Washington” inmy entry-level U.S. history classes, but they were often tacked onto the ends of units, afootnote in a whitewashed version of our past. Black history is not given its rightfulspace in the American history curriculum. It is no wonder many Americans feelunprepared to fully understand the June 2020 protests.Making this timeline was a way for me to educate myself, but much more importantly, Ihope it will be a helpful resource for others to do the same. If you take one look at thistimeline and feel overwhelmed, I encourage you to push past that feeling. Pick one event Privacy  - Termsthat you recognize and start there. See what caused that event and then look at itsimpact. Take things slowly, learn a little bit at a time, and then share with a loved onewho wants to learn, too.What I Did: As I added events and eras to the timeline, I  lled in their dates and wrote descriptions,added images, connections to other events, and more. I predominantly used informationfrom websites like history.com, blackpast.org, and recent news articles. These sites fallinto the category of popular history, so they are accessible to all kinds of learners. I wasencouraged to  nd so much information through simple web searches because thatmeans that viewers who want to go beyond the timeline will be able to do the same.· · ·To Use ClioVis timelines:Click on points, connections, and eras to read about speci c events and people.View in presentation mode to navigate the timelines chronologically.Zoom in and out of periods to see how historical events are connected to eachother.Drag your mouse left and right to navigate the timeline manually.· · ·Overview: Context for the 2020 BLM ProtestsTotal Events: 161 Total Connections: 119(view only)LegislationWarsSlavery in America Rec1748 1794 1840 188Revolutionary WarAmerican Civil WaEmancipation Prorginias Formed in South CarolinaStono Slave RebellionThe Negro Law of 1740The Boston MassacreThe 2nd AmendmentDred Scott v. SanfordFounding of theThe 14th AmeThe 13th AmendThe CompBlack CodesJim CroAmericanAbraham LincolnAndrew JohnsonRutherforUlysses S. GraThe 15th AmeReconstruction Civil Rights Act Freedmen's BureMilitary Rec nsoGeorge WashingtonJohn AdamsThomas JeffersonJames MadisonBleeding KansasJames MonroeJohn Quincy AdamsAndrew JacksonA rican Colonization SocietyCreation of LiberiaMissouri CompromiseKansas-Nebraska ActFugitive Slave Act of 1850Fugitive Sl ve Act of 1793C mpr mise of 1850oMexican-American WarJames K. PolkFugitive Slave AcUS Constitution3/5 CompromiseSally HemmingsSharecroppingfrican Slave Importation Ou lawedACotton Gin InventedKing CottonSecurity Act in South CarolinaNat Turner's R bellionJohn Brown’s raid oGerman Coast UprisingAmistad Ship RevoltCreole Ship Rev ltCiv l War-Era RevoltiiThe Domestic Slave TradeLouisiana Purchaseee f 1691N w York Conspiracy of 1741  Tobacco, Rice, Indigo, and Plantation RevolutionClioVisView “Overview: Context for the 2020 BLM Protests” in full screen here .I. Slavery in AmericaI. Slavery in AmericaTotal Events: 70 Total Connections: 58(view only)LegislationWarsSlavery in America1720 1760 1800 1840Revolutionary Ware in Virginiave Patrols Formed in South CarolinaStono Slave RebellionThe Negro Law of 1740The Boston MassacreThe 2nd AmendmentGeorge WashingtonJohn AdamsThomas JeffersonJames MadisonJames MonroeJohn Quincy AdamsAndrew JacksonAmerican Colonization SocCreatiMissouri CompromiseKFugFugitive Slave Act of 1793ComMexicaJames KUS Constitution3/5 CompromisSally HemmingsAfrican Slave Imp rtation OutlawCotton Gin InventedKing CottonSecurity Act in South CarolinaNat Turner's RebGerman Coast UprisingAmistad ShCreole ShThe Domestic Slave TradeLou siana Purchasetableiiave Code of 1691New York Conspir cy of 1741Tobacco, Rice, Indigo, and Plantation RevolutionClioVisView “I. Slavery in America” in full screen here. What I Did: By Dr. William JonesI edited the timeline for content, grammar, and punctuation, focusing on the years before1860. I also added academic sources that both substantiate the descriptions of theevents and point viewers to additional reading. In choosing representative scholarship, Iattempted to stick to academic sources that are comprehensive narratives publishedrecently or considered classics. I found that describing the events themselves and nding sources for them was less di cult than deciding what should be included on thetimeline. I always felt an internal tug between comprehensiveness, legibility, andsimplicity.A wide geographic perspective is often crucial for understanding the colonial erabecause all the European colonies in North America were part of larger empires, whichincluded colonies in the Caribbean and South America. Yet I was also afraid of addingtoo many events to the timeline and making it illegible. For some events, I decided toinclude geographically broad connections in the descriptions rather than enter themonto the timeline. For instance, the authors of the South Carolina Slave Code of 1691based that code on Jamaica’s code of 1684, which itself was based on Barbados’s codefrom 1661; this information (and sources to substantiate it) is only available on thetimeline in the description of the South Carolina code. In other instances, I did notmention how historical developments outside the United States in uenced a speci cevent on the timeline, but viewers who consult the readings will  nd that information.For instance, the nineteenth-century Atlantic slave trade in the Spanish Empire, sugarproduction in Cuba, and Great Britain’s attempts to police the slave trade on the westAfrican coast are all background elements of the Amistad case, but none of thatappears on the timeline. Finally, I felt like I needed to include some events (the HaitianRevolution, in particular) that occurred beyond the geographic boundaries of the UnitedStates because they in uenced a great deal of the history of slavery and race.II. Jim Crow to Civil RightsII. Jim Crow to Civil RightsTotal Events: 81 Total Connections: 83(view only)LegislationWarsJim Crow Laws00 1920 1940 1960American LynchingWorld War IRace Riots of 1919America in World War IIMurder of EmmettFergusonBrown v. Board of EdCivil RVoti"I HaveBirminMurdBlooJohn F. KenLyndonKDSpanish FluSharecroppingGreat MigrationBuchanan v. WarleyHarlem RenaissanceDetroit Race RiotWoodrow WilsonFranklin D. RooseveltCommittee on Fair Employment PractiDesegregation of Armed ForHarry TrumanRosa Parks' ArrestMontgomery BusBrowder v. GayleMontgomery ImpSouthern ChristiFreedom RLittle Rock Ni enCivil Rights ActGreensboro  Dwight D. EisenhowerMar hMalcO ganrStudent NoFreedCongress of Racial Equality (CORE)MLK's LFannie Lou HamerTulsa Race Massacre Angela DavisRuby BridgesBarbara JordanClioVisView “II. Jim Crow to Civil Rights” in full screen here. What I Did:  By Alina Scott“My role in the project was to edit the period after 1860 for content and source materialto ensure that Black voices and scholarship were included in the dialogue. The Blackradical tradition and the movement for Black lives have a rich legacy of cultural, political,and historical contributions so incorporating novels, critiques, and histories by Blackauthors was not di cult. I also wanted to incorporate sources that are accessible to anaudience outside academia by including e-books, podcasts, and documentariesavailable online.As noted above, we divided the “Overview” timeline into three sections for the sake ofuser readability, though the timelines are best read together. A key goal of the project isto show the continuity of antiblackness from the highest levels of government to stateleaders and local organizations. The project also shows the continuous resistance andresilience of Black people to systemic oppression.”III. Police and Civilian BrutalityIII. Police and Civilian BrutalityTotal Events: 40 Total Connections: 13(view only)LegislationWarsContBruta2000 2004 2008Murder of Amadou Diallo Murder of Sean BellBarack ObamaBill ClintonGeorge W. Bush1994 Crime BillCreation of 1033 Program & Police MilitarizationClioVisView “III. Police and Civilian Brutality” in full screen here. “While revising, I was struck by the way the timeline highlights protest, legislation, andpresidential power as key themes. While it includes a large number of importantindividuals, organizations, and events, the timelines is incomplete. Overall, the timelinesdo a tremendous job highlighting key dates in Civil Rights activism and legislation even ifit was not possible to include all historical actors and events. They make an excellenttool for teaching and learning about the political genealogy of the historic moment weare currently in. The movement for Black Lives is bigger than politics and legislation andwe encourage others to make their own timelines. For instance, how might this timelineoverlap with another on Black life, joy, and healing practices? Or a timeline centeringBlack Women and their role as intellectuals, in community building, religious life, andorganizing? Or a timeline on Black Internationalism, international BLM movements, orcoalition-building in the African Diaspora? There is potential, with a tool like ClioVis, todigitally show the many ways Black people have advocated for our lives and liberatedourselves in a way that is historically accurate, representative, and educational.We hope you  nd thatthe timelines a useful building block for teaching and learninghistory.”· · ·If you would like to know more about using these and other timelines or use ClioVis inyour classroom, contact admin@cliovis.org. 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