East St. Louis “Race Riots”
The East St. Louis “Race Riots” of 1917 saw the indiscriminate massacre of men, women, and children in a one-sided spate of brutal burnings of...
Category : History
Drapetomania
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In 1851, Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright, a prominent Southern physician, published a paper in De Bow’s Review, a widely circulated periodical in the antebellum South....
Fugitive Slave Acts 1793
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Fugitive Slave Acts, in U.S. history, statutes passed by Congress in 1793 and 1850 (and repealed in 1864) that provided for the seizure and return...
The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion
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The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion was activated as a result of a recommendation made in December 1942 by the Advisory Committee on Negro Troop Policies,...
Gold and Glory Sweepstakes
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From 1924 to 1936, the Midwest’s best and brightest black drivers and mechanics competed in what became known as the Gold and Glory Sweepstakes. Here,...
The Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company
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The Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company commonly referred to as The Freedmen’s Bank, was incorporated on March 3, 1865. It was created by the United...
The Compromise of 1850
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The Compromise of 1850 was a set of bills passed in Congress which tried to settle the issue of slavery, which was about to split...
Paul Cuffee
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Paul Cuffee, a sea captain and an entrepreneur, was perhaps the wealthiest black American of his time. Cuffee was born on Cuttyhunk Island, off Southern...
The Free Soil Party
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The Free Soil Party was an American political party that only survived through two presidential elections, in 1848 and 1852. Essentially a single issue reform...
The Abolition Movement
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As the enslavement of African-Americans became a preferred aspect of the United States’ society, people began questioning the morality of bondage. Throughout the 18th and...