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 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)
An article about 10 famous African Americans in 18th & 19th century American history, based on research in historical newspapers... (Read More)
An article about Frederick Douglass, an African American abolitionist, reformer, orator, writer, and advocate for the equal rights of all people... (Read More)