Brown v. Board: The Battle for the Minds of African-American Children
On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that transformed the nation’s legal and moral landscape. In Brown v. Board...
Category : African American history
“The City That Bombed Itself”: The 1985 MOVE Bombing and the War on Black Life
On 13 May 1985, the City of Philadelphia carried out a military-style aerial bombing on a residential row house at 6221 Osage Avenue, in the...
July 9, 1841: Four Black Men executed for a bank robbery
On July 9, 1841, four Black rivermen—Madison Henderson, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown—were executed on Duncan’s Island, just south of St....
JUNETEENTH
“The year 1865 came in, speaking joyful words in our ears… We hail it with joy, because it finds us surrounded with light… This year,...
Amelia’s Song: From Sierra Leone to South Carolina
“Ever since they left Thies, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the refrain to die, another picked it up,...
Claude Neal: The last ‘spectacle lynching’ in the United States.
Claude Neal was a 23-year-old African-American man who was arrested and lynched in Jackson County, Florida, on October 26, 1934, in one of the most...
William Tucker: The first African American child
“Out under the moon and the stars, alone with his son…he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face...
The Chicago Defender: The most influential Black weekly newspaper in America
The Chicago Defender was the United States’ most influential Black weekly newspaper by the advent of World War I, with more than two-thirds of its...
The Scottsboro Boys: Nine young Black men falsely accused of rape
The Great Depression of the 1930s, threw millions of Americans out of work. During the depression years, Blacks and whytes routinely “hoboed” (hitchhiked) freight trains,...
Bloody Sunday: Selma
“They came with horses. They came with nightsticks. And I was standing, and people were running… I did not run, so he hit me at...