The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 was a politically motivated attack by European-Americans against the city’s leading African American citizens. The massacre occurred because Southern Whyte...
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The Ocoee Massacre
The Ocoee massacre, considered the “single bloodiest day in modern American political history,” was a violent race riot that broke out on November 2, 1920....
The 1963 Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church
Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson, those were the names of the four little girls who were murdered on September 15th,...
The Christiana Riot of 1851
In 1851, in Christiana, Pennsylvania, one of the earliest armed confrontations took place between a group of African-Americans and Euro-American abolitionists and a Maryland posse...
Interview with Dr. David Imhotep: The First Americans Were Africans
“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC and they shared their blood with the...
The March on Washington: Historic Rally for Civil Rights
[dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]n August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 demonstrators took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington D.C. The march was...
Hurricane Katrina: The Lower Ninth Ward
[dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]urricane Katrina which formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclones of the 2005 Atlantic...
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
“As the black spot passed over the sun, so shall the Blacks pass over the earth.” – Nat Turner [dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]n Sunday, 21 August 1831,...
Antoney, Isabella, and Pedro: The “first” African Americans
“Your country? How come it yours? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours:...
The Watts Riots of 1965: An uprising against an oppressive system
“A riot is the language of the unheard.” ~MLK The Watts riots, which raged for six days, from August 11 to 17, in the Watts...