The Truth and Myth of Sojourner Truth
Much of what is widely embraced about the famous activist and orator is mythology, while the truth lives in the shadows.
Much of what is widely embraced about the famous activist and orator is mythology, while the truth lives in the shadows.
The struggle of university students to build Black Studies on campus, in their communities, and throughout the nation.
A 1906 photograph of a mathematics classroom illustrates how the Tuskegee Institute used “correlation” theory and the Sloyd system to teach applied mathematics.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Alice Freeman Palmer: A Portrait of Two American Women Educators
Celebrating the Silver Jubilee of the Tuskegee Institute in Four Photographs
The keynote address Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave at Fisk University in 1964 drew crowds from all over the city, including some of the great Civil Rights icons in American history
Susie Baker and the drive for education equality before Brown v. Board of Education
White people raged against school busing in Louisville, KY (September 1975)
Known as “The Father of Black History,” Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950) co-founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASALH) in 1915
How Autherine Lucy, Charlayne Hunter, and Vivian Malone Desegregated Higher Education in the American South
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