Emancipation Day celebration, June 19, 1900, held in ‘East Woods’ on East 24th St. in Austin, Texas. Austin History Center
by Kris Manjapra, Tufts University
The...
A colorized engraving depicts enslavers selling enslaved people in the 19th-century South. Corbis via Getty Images
by Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University
As the United States...
Freedom is a key concept to study.
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by Raphael E. Rogers, Clark University
Whenever I tell high school students in classes I...
GARRETT A. MORGAN
FEBRUARY 28
1708—One of the first recorded slave revolts in American history takes place on Newton, Long Island (New York). Seven Whites...
President Barack Obama presents NBA champion and human rights advocate Bill Russell the Medal of Freedom on Feb. 15, 2011.
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Howard Manly, The...
Confederate leaders Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis are depicted in this carving on Stone Mountain, Ga.
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by Donovan Schaefer, University of...
by Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University
If people know the name Joel Roberts Poinsett today, it is likely because of the red and green poinsettia...
O.J. SIMPSON
September 27
1817—Hiram R. Revels is born free in Fayetteville, N.C. Revels becomes the first Black to serve in the United States Senate...
