The communal activities undertaken here gave rise to the greatest musical traditions of the U.S.: ragtime and...
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Mathematician, statistician, astronomer, surveyor, and farmer Benjamin Banneker. By Jessie KratzHistorianU.S. National Archives and Records Administration Benjamin...
Toys offer opportunities to reiterate children’s inclusion. By Alexis DixonCuratorial AssistantSmithsonian National Museum of African American History...
Clark and Griggs introduced Black political priorities and cultural practices to white-led movements. From its start on...
By putting financial pressure on white businesses, Black civil rights leaders achieved social change. Introduction Signed into law 60 years ago, the Civil Rights Act...
Colonization has dispossessed Indigenous and Black peoples of their homelands across the continents for generations. Indigenous cosmologies,...
In addition to her work on the Underground Railroad, Tubman also served as a Union spy. Introduction...
He was the first African American scholar to go to Greece in 1890 to conduct professional archaeological...
He used humor to poke holes in the nostalgic myths of the South and expose the contradictions...
How the former secretary of state dealt with what WEB DuBois described as the ‘double-consciousness’ of being...
Throughout history, Blacks have had to overcome adversity on many levels. The obstacles in the 1980s posed...
A young African-American Army officer who refused to adhere to Southern protocol and move to the back...
The New Deal maintained racial hierarchies even as it aided African Americans through relief projects. By Dr....
For Milton Nicholas, the practical hurdle of illiteracy was exploited by election officials in order to manipulate...
At the turn of the 20th century, one young black editor implored his peers: ‘Let us make...
Black churches have long been an important pillar in Philadelphia’s African American community. Introduction The Black Church...
In the South, electoral politics remained a parade of electoral fraud, voter intimidation, and race-baiting. Just as...
The first real challenge to the constitutionality of state segregation laws came in 1938. Brown v. Board...
One goal Hayes didn’t accomplish as president – invigorating black education – he worked for as an...
Prohibited from attending the white GIs, the women felt betrayed by the country they fought to serve....
Claudette was arrested at the age of 15, nine months before Rosa Parks refused to yield her...
Archibald Motley painted African Americans having a good time. Archibald Motley (1891–1981) was born in New Orleans...
Hallie Quinn Brown and other “homespun heroines”. Hallie Quinn Brown knew the power of black women and...
Assisted by Native Americans, they moved – and fought. Introduction In 1861, as Confederate armies prepared to...
The United States Colored Troops (USCT) was a branch of the United States Army founded in 1863....
Team member Felix Knight looks through archives at the Church of Espiritu Santo in Havana, Cuba. David LaFevor...
Nearly two centuries before Rep.-elect Ayanna Pressley became Massachusetts’ first black woman elected to the U.S Congress...
The first separate black church in Newport was the Union Colored Church and Society The society is...
Aaron Douglas. “Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction.” Oil on canvas, 1934. The New York...
A choir sings traditional gospel music. Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their...