Claudette was arrested at the age of 15, nine months before Rosa Parks refused to yield her...
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The “40 acres and a mule” promised to formerly enslaved Africans never came to pass. Introduction Underlying...
Archibald Motley painted African Americans having a good time. Archibald Motley (1891–1981) was born in New Orleans...
To foreigners, he was a fellow traveler who recognized the plight of the oppressed. Introduction A leading...
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...
Bessie’s voice was elemental, a force set free from deep inside the world. It was a hot...
Native American assistance to freedom seekers crossing through the Midwest has largely been erased from Underground Railroad...
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...
Placing special emphasis on visual culture in the forms of photographs and postcards, Goldstein unpacks the complicated...
Assisted by Native Americans, they moved – and fought. Introduction In 1861, as Confederate armies prepared to...
For nearly a century, Quilombo of Palmares was an Afro-Brazilian state, populated and run by people who...
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 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...