Journey Through Two Americas

How white supremacy has survived for more than 150 years.

Nancy Peckenham
ILLUMINATION
Published in
6 min readJan 18, 2021

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Charlottesville, Va, 2014. Photo by the author.

The prominent role played by white supremacists who joined Nazi groups, conspiracy theorists and QAnon followers in a brazen attack on the nation’s Capitol last week should come as no surprise. Their roots are as old as our nation’s founders and interwoven with our fate. White supremacists are not outliers nor a…

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Nancy Peckenham
ILLUMINATION

Journalist, editor, mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend, adventurer, history-lover. Editor of Crow’s Feet