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  1. SectionThe AtlasEvery place the Ledger can name, on one map.
  2. SectionRecordsThe Record arm. Massacres, coups, organized destruction.
  3. SectionThe RiseFounders, inventors, institution-builders.
  4. SectionBanned BooksBooks banned, restricted, or removed from American institutions.
  5. SectionTimelineFour hundred years in one chronological index.
  6. SectionOn this dayEvents on the current calendar date.
  7. SectionSourcesEvery source cited across the Ledger.
  8. SectionThe Greenwood Directory, 1921Black-owned businesses that stood on May 30, 1921.
  9. SectionTulsa, 1921: The ChronicleTen scenes from Greenwood in the spring before the massacre.
  10. SectionThe WeeklyOne page a week from the Ledger.
  11. SectionAboutWhat the Ledger is and who keeps it.
  12. SectionWhy we built thisThe orientation page for the Ledger.
  13. RecordColfax, 1873Grant Parish, Louisiana
  14. RecordThe Civil Rights Cases, 1883United States Supreme Court
  15. RecordWilmington, 1898Wilmington, North Carolina
  16. RecordElaine, 1919Phillips County, Arkansas
  17. RecordOcoee, 1920Orange County, Florida
  18. RecordTulsa, 1921Greenwood District, Oklahoma
  19. RecordRosewood, 1923Levy County, Florida
  20. RecordShelby County v. Holder, 2013United States Supreme Court
  21. RiseA.G. Gaston1892 - 1996 · Demopolis, Alabama → Fairfield → Birmingham, Alabama
  22. RiseBarack Hussein Obama II1961 - · Honolulu → Jakarta → Los Angeles → New York → Chicago → Washington, D.C.
  23. RiseBessie Coleman1892 - 1926 · Atlanta, Texas → Chicago → Paris → the sky
  24. RiseCharles Richard Drew1904 - 1950 · Washington, D.C. → Amherst → McGill → Columbia → Howard University
  25. RiseConstance Baker Motley1921 - 2005 · New Haven, CT → New York → the federal bench, Southern District of New York
  26. RiseFrederick Douglass1818 - 1895 · Tuckahoe, Maryland → New Bedford → Rochester → Washington, D.C.
  27. RiseGarrett Morgan1877 - 1963 · Paris, Kentucky → Cincinnati → Cleveland
  28. RiseGeorge Washington Carverc. 1864 - 1943 · Diamond Grove, Missouri → Iowa State College → Tuskegee, Alabama
  29. RiseHiram Rhodes Revels1827 - 1901 · Fayetteville, NC → Indiana → Ohio → Illinois → Mississippi
  30. RiseIda B. Wells1862 - 1931 · Holly Springs, Mississippi → Memphis → New York → Chicago
  31. RiseKamala Devi Harris1964 - · Oakland → Berkeley → Montreal → Washington, D.C. → Howard University → San Francisco → Sacramento → Washington, D.C.
  32. RiseKatherine Johnson1918 - 2020 · White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia → Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
  33. RiseKetanji Brown Jackson1970 - · Washington, D.C. → Miami → Cambridge → Washington, D.C.
  34. RiseMadam C.J. Walker1867 - 1919 · Delta, Louisiana → St. Louis → Denver → Indianapolis → Irvington, NY
  35. RiseMaggie Lena Walker1864 - 1934 · Richmond, Virginia
  36. RiseOprah Winfrey1954 - present · Kosciusko, Mississippi → Milwaukee → Nashville → Baltimore → Chicago → Montecito, California
  37. RisePatricia Bath1942 - 2019 · Harlem, New York → Howard University → Columbia → UCLA
  38. RiseReginald F. Lewis1942 - 1993 · Baltimore → Harvard Law → Wall Street
  39. RiseRobert F. Smith1962 - present · Denver, Colorado → Ithaca, New York → New York City → Austin, Texas
  40. RiseThurgood Marshall1908 - 1993 · Baltimore → Lincoln University → Howard Law → New York (LDF) → Washington, D.C. (U.S. Supreme Court)
  41. RiseW.E.B. Du Bois1868 - 1963 · Great Barrington, Massachusetts → Nashville → Cambridge → Berlin → Atlanta → New York → Accra
  42. Banned bookAll Boys Aren't BlueGeorge M. Johnson · Banned 2021-2025
  43. Banned bookBelovedToni Morrison · Banned 1990-2025
  44. Banned bookBetween the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates · Banned 2015-2025
  45. Banned bookBlack BoyRichard Wright · Banned 1945-2025
  46. Banned bookBrown Girl DreamingJacqueline Woodson · Banned 2020-2025
  47. Banned bookCaste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsIsabel Wilkerson · Banned 2021-2025
  48. Banned bookDear MartinNic Stone · Banned 2018-2025
  49. Banned bookGhost BoysJewell Parker Rhodes · Banned 2021-2024
  50. Banned bookGo Tell It on the MountainJames Baldwin · Banned 1953-2020
  51. Banned bookHow to Be an AntiracistIbram X. Kendi · Banned 2020-2025
  52. Banned bookI Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou · Banned 1970-2025
  53. Banned bookInvisible ManRalph Ellison · Banned 1952-2025
  54. Banned bookJust Mercy: A Story of Justice and RedemptionBryan Stevenson · Banned 2020-2025
  55. Banned bookLong Way DownJason Reynolds · Banned 2019-2025
  56. Banned bookNative SonRichard Wright · Banned 1940-2025
  57. Banned bookNew KidJerry Craft · Banned 2021-2025
  58. Banned bookRoll of Thunder, Hear My CryMildred D. Taylor · Banned 1980-2025
  59. Banned bookRoots: The Saga of an American FamilyAlex Haley · Banned 1980-2025
  60. Banned bookSong of SolomonToni Morrison · Banned 1990-2025
  61. Banned bookStamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in AmericaIbram X. Kendi · Banned 2020-2025
  62. Banned bookStamped: Racism, Antiracism, and YouIbram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds · Banned 2020-2025
  63. Banned bookThe 1619 Project: A New Origin StoryNikole Hannah-Jones · Banned 2021-2025
  64. Banned bookThe Autobiography of Malcolm XMalcolm X and Alex Haley · Banned 1965-2025
  65. Banned bookThe Bluest EyeToni Morrison · Banned 1970-2025
  66. Banned bookThe Color PurpleAlice Walker · Banned 1984-2025
  67. Banned bookThe Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin · Banned 1963-2025
  68. Banned bookThe Hate U GiveAngie Thomas · Banned 2017-2025
  69. Banned bookThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessMichelle Alexander · Banned 2018-2025
  70. Banned bookThe Poet XElizabeth Acevedo · Banned 2019-2025
  71. Banned bookTheir Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston · Banned 1990-2025