An article about the U.S. Supreme Court issuing its Dred Scott decision on 6 March 1857, ruling that Blacks could not be citizens in the United States... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about an African American genealogy resource: slave narratives recorded by the Federal Writers’ Project... (Read More)
An article about a resolution passed in the U.S. House on 11 February 1861 guaranteeing non-interference with slavery in any state of the Union... (Read More)
An article about the “Greensboro Sit-In,” when four African American students sat down at the segregated lunch counter in a Woolworth’s store in NC... (Read More)
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)
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