A Civil War letter written in 1862 by a soldier serving in the 1st Louisiana Native Guard, one of the first African American regiments in the U.S. Army... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega gives tips for finding and using the records of the Freedmen’s Bureau, 1865-1872... (Read More)
Newspaper coverage of the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama on 21 March 1965... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to learn more about some African American women leaders in the women’s suffrage movement... (Read More)
In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak searches old newspapers to learn more about publisher, journalist and abolitionist John Brown Russwurm... (Read More)
An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about researching the life of Lewis Hathaway, a former slave born in Kentucky in 1824 who bought his own freedom... (Read More)
An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about researching old newspapers to find the stories of freed slaves... (Read More)
An article about Autherine Lucy, who in February 1956 became the first African American student to attend a white university or public school in Alabama... (Read More)
An article about the American Colonization Society’s 1820 voyage of freed blacks going to Africa from the U.S.A.; the new colony became Liberia in 1847... (Read More)
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