Maxine Sullivan
Maxine Sullivan had very little formal music training. She was discovered while singing at the Benjamin Harrison Literary Club in Pittsburg by Gladys Mosier. Mosier...
Author : joe bodego
Louis Gossett, Jr
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Louis Gossett, Jr. is an esteemed American actor, known for his powerful performances on stage and screen. With a career spanning over six decades, Gossett...
“Racist” Cream of Wheat Chef Image of Frank L. White, ca. 1921
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At a moment when Minneapolis had a very small African American community, the city became home to “Rastus,” an iconic caricature of a black man....
William Decker Johnson
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William Decker Johnson was the 42nd Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and founder of Johnson Home Industrial College in Archery, Georgia. Born...
Black Soldiers in the U.S. Military During the Civil War
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The issues of emancipation and military service were intertwined from the onset of the Civil War. News from Fort Sumter set off a rush by...
The Confederate States of America
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The Confederate States of America was a collection of 11 states that seceded from the United States in 1860 following the election of President Abraham...
Jefferson Finis Davis
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Jefferson Finis Davis, the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, was a planter, politician, and soldier born in Kentucky and raised...
In the 1850s, the future of American slavery seemed bright
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Southern slaveholders, like most Americans, before and since were in love with the future. In the decades before the Civil War, as the United States...
Harlem’s Ethiopian Jews
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Alexander Alland’s Ethiopian Hebrews (c.1940) is a series of photographs in the Jewish Museum collection that documents the interior lives of a community of black...
Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford
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Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford was born on April 23, 1877, in Bridgetown, Barbados, to Edward Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Augustine Ford. He claimed that his...