In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega explores a helpful resource for family history research: an online collection of African American newspapers... (Read More)
An article showing how newspaper articles help document the genealogy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. .. (Read More)
An article about two sources for information about ex-slaves: stories in old newspapers; and Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project... (Read More)
An article about African American journalist, civil rights activist and suffragist Ida Bell Wells, born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on 16 July 1862... (Read More)
An article about President Johnson announcing on 13 June 1967 his nomination of Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American Supreme Court justice... (Read More)
An article about President Reagan signing the bill on 2 November 1983 that created the Martin Luther King Jr. Day national holiday... (Read More)
An article about Nicodemus, Kansas, a historic black town settled by African Americans at the end of Civil War Reconstruction... (Read More)
An article about the Supreme Court ruling on 17 May 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional... (Read More)
An article about the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, on 4 April 1968... (Read More)
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