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Brandon R. Byrd

Brandon R. Byrd is a historian of the 19th- and 20th-century United States with specializations in African American and African Diaspora History. He is currently an assistant professor of history at Vanderbilt University. icon

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@X: Making America White 200 Years Ago

By Brandon R. Byrd

In January 1817, more than three thousand African Americans gathered in Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia ...

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