The Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863 The Story Behind This Significant Moment On [...]
Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree)
1797 – November 26, 1883 Activist / Abolitionist Our sister [...]
Booker Taliaferro Washington
April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915 Educator / Author [...]
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
November 10, 1898 Violent Overthrow of the Government by White [...]
Maj. John Roy Lynch
September 10, 1847 – November 2, 1939 Politician / Military [...]
Lucy Craft Laney
April 13, 1854 – October 24, 1933 Educator Lucy Craft [...]
The Story of the Fugitive Slave Acts
September 18, 1850 Federal Laws Inhibiting the Liberty of Black [...]
The Fourteenth Amendment
Ratified on July 21, 1868 Landmark Legislation to the US [...]
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931 Journalist / Activist [...]
The Story of Juneteenth
June 19, 1865 Juneteenth (officially Juneteenth National Independence Day and [...]