How Did We Get Here?

163 years of The Atlantic’s writing on race and racism in America

By Gillian B. White

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2020/06/atlantic-reader-race-and-racism-us/613057/

America recently passed the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first captive Africans brought to what would become the United States. September 2019 was chosen as an imperfect but significant date to mark the start of American slavery and the systems of inequality perpetuated by the nation’s original sin.