Walgreens “Nashville” lunch counter sit-in, 1960
University students from black colleges in Nashville including American Baptist, Fisk, Meharry, and Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial School held a sit-in protest at the downtown...
Category : History
The Richard and Mildred Loving Story
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To say that Richard and Mildred Loving were reluctant heroes would be an understatement. Richard, with his platinum blonde crew cut, backwoods accent, and taciturn...
Charles Deslondes -The 1811 Louisiana Slave Revolt
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Charles Deslondes was a Creole Mulatto slave living on the German Coast east of New Orleans. Because he was a Creole and thus had lighter...
The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea
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Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it...
The heroics of Aunt Polly Jackson who fought off white slavers to protect fugitives in the mid-1800s
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Slave rebellions and protests were not helping enslaved Africans in America gain their freedom, and this led them to devise other forceful means of obtaining...
Edmonia Lewis
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Edmonia Lewis, in full Mary Edmonia Lewis, (born c. July 4, 1844, Greenbush, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 17, 1907, London, Eng.), an American sculptor whose Neoclassical...
How this enslaved man was made to serve as a breeder to increase his owner’s slave populations
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The disturbing history of the slave trade brings to mind the horrifying experiences enslaved Africans had to go through while working on plantations in the...
African American & Sacagawea Contributions
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A black man by the name of York accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition as a slave to Clark. He had been a childhood companion...
Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
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Ivan Van Sertima was born in Guyana, South America. He was educated at the School of Oriental and African Studies (London University) and the Rutgers...
lynching of Luther Holbert and his wife
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From 1882 to 1944, there were about 4,700 lynchings in the United States; Mississippi led the nation with 573. Of Mississippi’s victims, 93% were African...