To foreigners, he was a fellow traveler who recognized the plight of the oppressed. Introduction A leading...
African American
How the work of African American clubwomen deepens our understanding of the Great Migration and the Progressive...
Hallie Quinn Brown and other “homespun heroines”. Hallie Quinn Brown knew the power of black women and...
Mary McLeod Bethune founded a college, defied the Klan, advised presidents, and was a fierce warrior for...
Maggie Lena Walker was one of the most important Black businesswomen in the nation, and today too...
Two factors overlapped to result in the genocide of the Kikotan people. Reckoning with the past is...
A 19th-century volume contained a mystery for two historians who combined their knowledge to tell the story...
Both during slavery and after, the power structures of American society confined many black women to the...
Typical narratives about 1919’s anti-black collective violence, especially in school textbooks, often conclude abruptly. This summer marks...
The art of Florida’s Highwaymen finds a new audience. It was an era when most African Americans...
Recruits in the first African-American Marine Corps trained at Montford Point, eventually ending the military’s longstanding policy...
The history of discrimination by the United States Department of Agriculture and the class action lawsuits by...
The United States Colored Troops (USCT) was a branch of the United States Army founded in 1863....
Transformed in the 1950s from a sharecropper shack that was built probably in the 1920s, Poor Monkey’s...
Ideas about racial and cultural identity, even among indigenous people, have changed significantly over time. Joseph Louis...