Since the era of Reconstruction, Black historians have always fought to defend the truth against white supremacist mythology. In the second Trump administration, we must again.

How to Defend Black History

“If our people are to fight their way up out of bondage,” declared Mary McLeod Bethune in the pages of the Journal of Negro History in 1938, “we must arm them with the sword and the shield and the buckler of pride—belief in themselves and their possibilities, based upon a sure knowledge of the achievements of the past.” When Bethune made this argument at the height of the Great Depression and the New Deal, it was clear to her and the readers of the Journal of Negro History that Black life in the United States was only made harder by a misinterpretation of the past.

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