Exploring gospel music’s essential place as an outlet for African Americans to express their spiritual and cultural...
African American History and Culture
Explore African American history and culture from enslavement through the continuing struggle for equality. These studies center Black voices while showing how communities created traditions that transformed American life.
Dunbar became the first Black writer to earn international acclaim through his poetry, essays, and musical lyrics....
The communal activities undertaken here gave rise to the greatest musical traditions of the U.S.: ragtime and...
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...
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...
Communicating the diversity of the ancient Mediterranean. By Paula Gaither, Elisa McAtee, Kenneth Lapatin, and David Saunders...
At the turn of the 20th century, one young black editor implored his peers: ‘Let us make...
Honoring the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. My project, Mug Shot Portraits: Women of the...
It was the spiritual home to MLK and to the generations that shaped the vision of the...
Black churches have long been an important pillar in Philadelphia’s African American community. Introduction The Black Church...
In 1976, the exhibition Two Centuries of Black American Art, 1750 to 1950, curated by David Driskell,...
Even without the right to vote, Black women engaged in political organizing and partisan debates. Today, Black...
In the South, electoral politics remained a parade of electoral fraud, voter intimidation, and race-baiting. Just as...
Jim Crow states passed statutes severely regulating social interactions between the races. Jim Crow was the name...
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...