Category : History

The brutal lynching of John Hartfield on June 26, 1919, stands as a haunting reminder of the racial violence and injustice that marred the history...

Edmund Winston Pettus (1821-1907) was the last Confederate brigadier general from Alabama to serve in the U.S. Senate. An attorney, he was an influential leader...

Hubert Henry Harrison is the most important black radical you’ve ever heard of. While other leading figures in the black freedom movement, from W. E. B....

One of the most sidelined American architects is African American architect Julian Francis Abele who is noted to have designed several important buildings including one...