The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, 1930
On a hot August night in 1930, a crowd gathered in front of an Indiana jail — men, women, and children shouting and jeering, demanding...
Category : History
A KKK child and a black State Trooper meet each other, 1992
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The Trooper is black. Standing in front of him and touching his shield is a curious little boy dressed in a KKK hood and robe....
Ruby Bridges, the first African-American to attend a white elementary school in the deep South, 1960
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On the road to Civil Rights, even children became public figures, such as six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans...
Saundra Brown Armstrong
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On June 21, 1991, President Bush appointed Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong to the United States District Court. With her appointment, she became the first African-American...
A lone African-American man attends a Klan rally in Jackson, USA, 1950
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A lone African-American boy left foreground, stands in a sparse crowd that turned out to hear Dr. Lycurgus Spinks, imperial emperor of one of the...
Paul Cuffe
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The African American ship captain, merchant, and philanthropist Paul Cuffe (1759-1817) was active in the campaign for civil rights for blacks and Native Americans in...
East Saint Louis Race Riot of 1917
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East Saint Louis Race Riot of 1917, (July 2), bloody outbreak of violence in East St. Louis, Illinois, stemming specifically from the employment of black...
Benjamin O. Davis
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Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. (1877-1970) was the first African American general in the regular United States Armed Services. He assisted in developing and implementing...
Hazel Johnson
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Hazel Johnson was the first African American woman to become a general in the U.S. Army. She was appointed the Chief of the Army Nurse...
Buffalo soldier
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In 1866, an Act of Congress created six all-black peacetime regiments, later consolidated into four –– the 9th and 10th Cavalry, and the 24th and...