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How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America

  • Written by Derek H. Alderman, Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
imageAn early 20th-century NAACP map showing lynchings between 1909 and 1918. The maps were sent to politicians and newspapers in an effort to spur legislation protecting Black Americans.Library of Congress

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