The Historical Need for Black Colleges
...history in promoting black education and progress, particularly in an era when black achievement was not considered possible. While slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War in...
What It Was Like To Be an African-American Soldier During the Civil War
...soldiers in the Union Army as prisoners of war. Death by hanging was not uncommon. In early 1863, the War Department allowed for the recruitment of free Blacks in the...
Understanding Woodrow Wilson’s Racism
...slaves and their descendants, as well as free blacks of the North. Wilson encapsulates that historic moment himself in a profile of Robert E. Lee. He calls Lee noble, heroic,...
Dr. Ossian Sweet’s Black Life Mattered
...after contracting TB. In 1928, Gladys also died from TB. Sweet’s misfortune’s continued: he had to sell his house in the ‘50s, and in 1960, he committed suicide. Today, his...
Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill?
...takes wouldn’t hurt for a refresher. Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland in 1820 or 1821. She escaped to become an ardent abolitionist and feminist. During the Civil War,...
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“Birth of a Nation”: 100 Years Later
...during a critical scene. And when W.E.B. Du Bois wrote about the movie later in life, he recalled that there were more lynchings in 1915 than there had been in...
What If the World Were Flat and Columbus Had Fallen Off the Edge of the Earth?
...of human death virtually unseen in world history. “There was undeniably an avalanche of disease that decimated all native American peoples,” Crosby wrote in 1991. Leslie Roberts in the journal...