Buchanan v. Warley
The unanimous decision, upholding the right of whites and blacks to sell residential property to one another, was the first exception to state segregation laws...
Category : History
Segregation in the United States
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After the United States abolished slavery, Black Americans continued to be marginalized through enforced segregation and diminished access to facilities, housing, education—and opportunities. Segregation is...
Carl Brashear
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Born into a sharecropping family in 1931, Carl Brashear rose from little to become the first African American Master Diver and first amputee diver in...
Escaped Slave Gordon Showing His Scarred Back at a Medical Examination, Louisiana, 1863
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Gordon, widely known as “Whipped Peter,” was an African American who escaped slavery and became an enduring symbol of the abolitionist movement during the American...
The George Latimer Case
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In the fall of 1842, the arrest of George Latimer, a fugitive slave who had escaped from Virginia to Boston, Massachusetts, ignited a firestorm of...
National Council of Negro Women
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National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), an American umbrella organization, founded by Mary McLeod Bethune in New York City on December 5, 1935, whose mission...
Eunice Hunton Carter – The Woman Who Reeled in Lucky Luciano
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Eunice Hunton Carter: The Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster In 1935, Charles “Lucky” Luciano was at the peak of his...
Helen Pitts
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Helen Pitts Douglass (1838–1903) was a formidable figure in the fight for social justice, whose life was marked by courage, conviction, and an unwavering commitment...
Anna Murray Douglass
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Anna Murray, the wife of Frederick Douglass and the mother of their children, personifies the unheralded woman behind the great man. She’s lucky to get...
Why Was Frederick Douglass’s Marriage to Helen Pitts Controversial?
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On the morning of January 25, 1884, Jane Pitts woke up to newspaper headlines that her daughter Helen, without her knowledge, had married the famous...