Guest Commentator and Jamala Rogers, BC Editorial Board

Dr. Walter Johnson, PhD

BC Guest Commentator Dr. Walter Johnson, PhD is a professor of history at Harvard University. BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, Jamala Rogers, founder and Chair Emeritus of the Organization for Black Struggle in St. Louis. She is an organizer, trainer and speaker. She is the author of The Best of the Way I See It – A Chronicle of Struggle. Other writings by Ms. Rogers can be found on her blog jamalarogers.com. Contact Ms. Rogers and BC. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble

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Guest Commentary

No Excuse for Forgetting Black St. Louis

By Dr. Walter Johnson, PhD Guest Commentator and Jamala Rogers, BC Editorial Board

Not far from the site of the Arch, in the antebellum period, sat the city’s largest slave pen, owned by the notorious trader Bernard Lynch. Thousands of enslaved men, women and children passed through its gates on their way “down the river.”

History happens twice they say: once tragedy, then again as farce. Never more so than under the Arch. In July 1964, Percy Green II climbed the…

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