The cruel ‘Lash Law’ of the 1800s that authorized the whipping of Blacks twice a year
Peter Burnett and Racial Policies in 19th-Century America By 1865, slavery was outlawed in the United States, granting former slaves the right to own property...
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Wallace Henry Thurman
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A Pioneering Voice of the Harlem Renaissance and the man who penned the expression “THE BLACKER THE BERRY” Wallace Henry Thurman, a prominent figure in...
The Gullah People
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The Gullah are African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and Georgia, which includes both the coastal plain and the Beaufort...
Juneteenth and the Struggle Against Chattel Slavery
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On June 19, 1865, in Galveston, the United States military governor of Texas, General Gordon Granger, issued General Order No.3, which declared that per the Emancipation...
United Sons of Ham of America
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A Pillar of African American Fraternal Life During Reconstruction During the turbulent era of Reconstruction following the American Civil War, African American communities in the...
BOLEY, OKLAHOMA: THE ALL-BLACK TOWN THAT FOUGHT BACK AGAINST “PRETTY BOY FLOYD’S GANGSTERS
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The town of Boley, located in the western part of Okfuskee County in Oklahoma, was one of the most vibrant black towns in all of...
Infanticide as Slave Resistance: Evidence from Barbados, Jamaica, & Saint-Domingue
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Colonial-era fictional and non-fictional descriptions of slave motherhood offer conflicting accounts of the attitudes of slave mothers toward their children. While abolitionists tended to portray...
The first black professional footballer in the world was born in Ghana in 1865
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The story of football trailblazer Arthur Wharton is a very fascinating one. Though his legacy and impact were for a very long time buried and...
How Chicken Bone Beach Got Its Name
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Chicken Bone Beach is a historic landmark and cultural site in Atlantic City, New Jersey, that was significant in African-American history. The beach was located...
The Forgotten Girls Who Left the South and Changed History
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BY MARCIA CHATELAIN A “Northern Invasion” was coming, the Chicago Defender declared in early 1917: that spring, specifically May 15, would begin the Great Northern Drive. Southern blacks...