The first separate black church in Newport was the Union Colored Church and Society The society is...
Racism
Convict labor at the State Lime Grinding Plant, Virginia / From Virginia; Its Agricultural and Industrial Resources, 1914...
A Soviet anti-racism stamp from 1960 features a black child in typical blackface imagery / Wikimedia Commons...
Rethinking his initial impressions after being fed “a diet of Gandhi hagiographies”. By Dr. Arica L. Coleman...
A 1950s photograph of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till Mobley, during a visit to Jackson,...
This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old Black Chicago boy, who was kidnapped, tortured, and...
His name was Josiah Henson and he once was as famous as Frederick Douglass. So what happened?...
By Dr. Katherine Mellon Charron Associate Professor of History North Carolina State University Introduction Segregation contradicts what...
Collector Keya Morgan bought this photograph of two slave children, which was accompanied by a document detailing...
Martin Luther King Jr.‘s dream – which alternated between shattered and hopeful – can be traced back...
Linda Brown Smith, right, and her two children in their Topeka, KS home 1974. AP While Linda Brown...
Josephine Baker | AP By Chauncey K. Robinson / 03.01.2018 It seems only fitting with Black History...
So-called alt-right groups, such as these demonstrators at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , chats with African-Americans during a door-to-door campaign in 1964. AP Photo/JAB By...
Rev. William J. Barber speaks to the crowd gathered at Pullen Baptist Memorial Church in Raleigh, North...
Belgian Jewish star. (Photo by DRG-fan, Wikimedia Commons) Bill Moyers in conversation with author James Whitman about his...
P. T. Barnum’s white elephant Toung Taloung, featured in an extra supplement to the Illustrated London News, January...
Five generations of a slave family / Shutterstock By Dr. Daina Ramey Berry / 06.19.2017 Associate Professor...
Artwork by Steve Gardner at the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial in Washington state. The memorial wall...
Zoot suit wearing pachucos detained by the police, ca. 1942 This June marks the 74th anniversary of...
Edited by Dr. AnaMaria Seglie / 01.18.2011 Professor of English Rice University Transported Labor, Indentured Servitude,...
“The Coffle Gang”—A depiction of the internal slave trade, 1864, Suppressed Book About Slavery! Collection (Schomburg Center...
Anna May Wong was the first Chinese-American movie star and the first Asian-American actress to gain international...
By Dr. Eric S. Hintz / 09.15.2016 Historian and Fellowship Coordinator Lemelson Center for the Study of...
Slave shackles in a display case at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in...
Group of men who were test subjects in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments, 1972 / U.S. Department of...
Photo of Frederick Douglass, by George Kendall Warren, c. 1879 / National Archives By Dr. Jonathan Holloway...
When one undertakes to administer justice, it must be with an even hand, and by rule; what...
Martin Luther King Jr. statue. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters By Dr. Timothy Joseph / 02.01.2016 Associate Professor of Classics...
Captives being brought on board a slave ship on the West Coast of Africa (Slave Coast), c1880....