Ericka Huggins (née Jenkins), born January 5, 1948, in Washington, D.C., is a human rights activist, poet, educator, former political prisoner, and leading member of...
George Kephart (February 7, 1811 – August 26, 1888) was a 19th-century American slave trader, landowner, farmer, and later philanthropist from Maryland. He played a...
John C. Cook, commonly known as J. C. Cook and identified with Washington, D.C., was a 19th-century American slave trader active in the antebellum South....
Charles M. Price (of Montgomery County, Maryland) was a 19th-century landowner, enslaver, and businessman in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area during the lead-up to and...
In 1796, a 22-year-old slave woman named Ona Judge fled President George Washington’s household for a life of freedom in New Hampshire. Born around 1774...
On the night of March 21, 1981, in Mobile, Alabama, 19-year-old Michael Donald—a young Black man with no criminal record or involvement in drugs—became the...
The Carroll County Courthouse Massacre of March 17, 1886, stands as one of the most brutal and unpunished acts of racial violence in post-Reconstruction America....
Julian Bond was an influential American social activist, leader, and politician. Born on January 14, 1940, in Nashville, Tennessee, Bond dedicated his life to the...
Unitarian Universalist Minister and Civil Rights Martyr James Joseph Reeb was an American clergyman whose life and brutal death at the age of 38 became...