Before becoming the first Black justice to sit on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall stood in front of the highest court to argue against racial segregation in American schools. His involvement with this landmark legal case, Brown v. Board of Education, was critical to establishing a legal precedent against the practice of segregation.
Read MoreOn this day 159 years ago, more than three thousand Black individuals were freed in the United States capital. Washington, D.C. passed the DC Compensated Emancipation Act on April 16, 1862, freeing thousands of enslaved people in the capital and paving the way for nationwide emancipation.
Read MoreAs a hub of abolitionist activism and home to a vibrant free Black community, 19th century Philadelphia gave rise to a number of prominent Black Americans. One of them was Henrietta Smith Bowers Duterte, the first woman undertaker in the United States who, on top of being a successful business woman, was also a prominent activist and philanthropist.
Read MorePatricia Roberts Harris was a woman of firsts. First Black women to serve as an ambassador, first Black woman to serve as the dean of Howard University’s Law School, first Black woman to serve on the board of directors of a Fortune 500 company, and more. Our women’s history month continues as we dive into the remarkable life and career of this trailblazing American woman.
Read MoreThe Civil War endures heavily in the minds of Americans up until the present day. Yet, American interest in the Civil War has produced and proliferated much historical misinformation with respect to the greater understanding of the conflict. One story that has entered the mainstream is that of Black soldiers fighting for the Confederacy alongside the white men of the South. But were there actually Black Confederates?
Read More“Tout le sang coule rouge” is not from the clever mind of some Hollywood scriptwriter. It is the actual title of an unpublished autobiography of, oddly enough, an American. The story of Eugene Bullard is one of grit and determination and should have been taught in schools.
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