White Mob Lynches Black Man in SC for Allegedly Knocking on White Woman’s Door
On January 13, 1904, a mob of white people lynched a Black man known as General Lee in Reevesville, South Carolina, for allegedly knocking on...
Category : History
The Mayfield Ten
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Established in 1908, Mayfield High School was the white high school in Mayfield Kentucky. Ten students from Dunbar (“Colored”) High School chose to integrate Mayfield...
Hannah Elias
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Hannah Elias, a prominent figure in American history, was born around 1865 and left an indelible mark on the world as an American sex worker...
A Negro Schoolmaster in the South
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1899 account as a young, black schoolmaster in the South By W. E. Burghardt Du Bois Once upon a time,...
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton
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Benjamin “Pap” Singleton was an African American man who played an important part in the massive emigration of ex-slaves from the South to the West....
How an Enslaved African Man in Boston Helped Save Generations from Smallpox
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The news was terrifying to colonists in Massachusetts: Smallpox had made it to Boston and was spreading rapidly. The first victims, passengers on a ship...
James Marion Sims
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Few medical doctors have been as lauded—and loathed—as James Marion Sims. Credited as the “father of modern gynecology,” Sims developed pioneering tools and surgical techniques...
Doris Miller
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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...
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...
Sarah Redmond
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In 1853, Sarah Redmond refused to sit in a segregated area for the opera, Don Pasquale, which she had purchased tickets to attend. After her...