Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ Speech
This is the full text of Enoch Powell’s so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, which was delivered to a Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham on April...
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How an Enslaved African Man in Boston Helped Save Generations from Smallpox
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Doris Miller, born on October 12, 1919, was an American sailor who served in the United States Navy during World War II. He is best...
Charles W. Chesnutt – This black writer penned plantation fiction while passing as white
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Charles W. Chesnutt, in full Charles Waddell Chesnutt, (born June 20, 1858, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died Nov. 15, 1932, Cleveland), first important black American novelist. Chesnutt...
A town of freed slaves — on Robert E. Lee’s old estate — was destroyed to make Arlington cemetery
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Sojourner Truth was outraged, but her feelings didn’t show in a letter she wrote about her meeting with Abraham Lincoln in October 1864. She’d gone...