An article about how newly-freed Blacks found missing members of their families after the Civil War using “missing person” ads in newspapers... (Read More)
An article about the life and death of “Harlem Renaissance” African American author Langston Hughes, who died on 22 May 1967... (Read More)
An article about the assassination of Black activist Malcolm X on 21 February 1965... (Read More)
An article about Ronald Harmon “Ron” Brown being elected chairman of the Democratic Party on 10 February 1989... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to learn more about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr... (Read More)
A letter from a captain in the Union army during the Civil War, telling the dramatic story of “colored” troops freeing Southern slaves... (Read More)
An article about Joseph Hayne Rainey becoming the first African American ever elected to Congress, on 12 December 1870... (Read More)
An article about Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback becoming the nation’s first African American governor on 9 December 1872... (Read More)
An article about the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, which sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott... (Read More)
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