The Slocum Massacre
“Some people don’t want that part of history told because it makes them or their ancestors look bad, but history is history. You can’t just...
Category : African American history
The Massachusetts 54th Regiment: The Glory Regiment
The United States Colored Troops (USCT) were regiments in the United States Army composed of African-American (colored) soldiers; they were first recruited during the American...
11 Black Men brutally murdered: The New York City Draft Riots
On July 13, 1863, anti-draft violence erupted in New York City, resulting in four days of bloodshed, arson, looting, and mayhem. The New York City...
The Black Witches Of Salem
Three captive women were among the approximately 155 people accused of witchcraft in the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692. Two women were identified in...
Will and William West: The doppelgängers that sparked the beginning of fingerprinting in the USA
Will and William West were doppelgangers who shared the same name and were both sentenced to jail at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas. Their remarkable case...
New York Maafa Uprising of 1712
In the early 1700s, New York had one of the largest enslaved populations of any of England’s stolen territories. One out of every five New...
Soledad Brothers
The Soledad Brothers—George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgoole, and John Clutchette—were three African-American men accused of murdering a Euro-American prison guard at California’s Soledad Prison on January...