When Jim Crow Reigned Amid the Rubble of Nazi Germany
Thousands of African-American troops were sent to a defeated Germany to promote democracy, even as they were confined to the social order of Jim Crow....
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Lucy Parsons
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Meet the most dangerous black woman of the 1870s, whose powerful writings were ‘stolen’ by the FBI “She is more dangerous than a thousand rioters,”...
The Black liberators who helped defeat the Nazis & free the Dutch get their due
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At 95, retired Cpl. James W. Baldwin stands among the last surviving Black liberators—those courageous African American soldiers who stormed into the Netherlands in 1945,...
How An African Slave Created A Cure That Saved Americans From Smallpox in The 1700s
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The news was terrifying to the colonialists of Massachusetts. Smallpox had made it to Boston and was spreading very rapidly. The first victims, who were...
How Escaped Slaves Outsmarted the Deadly Dogs Sent to Hunt Them
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Enslaved Africans, driven by an unyielding desire for freedom, faced immense challenges in escaping the brutal oppression of their white slaveholders. To evade detection and...
When the U.S. government organized segregated trips for Gold Star mothers, black women protested
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In the summer of 1930, Bessie Strawther took a train from her home in Urbana, Ohio to New York City. It was the first leg...
When White Women Wanted a Monument to Black ‘Mammies’
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A 1923 fight shows Confederate monuments are about power, not Southern heritage. In 1923, a group of white women wanted to build what they called...
Was Aunt Jemima a Real Person? Yes, She Was!
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The woman we know as Aunt Jemima is in fact a real person, but her real name was actually Nancy Green. She did not create...
The tragic yet resilient story of Igbo slaves who committed mass suicide off U.S. coast in 1803
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The stories of slave resistance, many of us know, have to do with bloodshed, violence, and destruction. But there are other acts of resistance whose...