Powerful, Though Silent: Frederick Douglass’ Portraits
Portraits of Frederick Douglass, the most photographed American of the nineteenth century, illuminate his life and career as an abolitionist.
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Portraits of Frederick Douglass, the most photographed American of the nineteenth century, illuminate his life and career as an abolitionist.
Initially written off as “crazy,” the New Orleans Sniper’s ideas reflected a more widely held sentiment of rage among Black youth.
The Civil Rights Movement owes much to the students who boldly sat down at segregated lunch counters
Black children played a central role in the Civil Rights Movement
Much of what is widely embraced about the famous activist and orator is mythology, while the truth lives in the shadows.
Galvanized by new electoral laws after the Civil War, thousands of Black men ran for public office both locally and nationally.
Josiah T. Walls was one of them.
The tumultuous days of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The struggle of university students to build Black Studies on campus, in their communities, and throughout the nation.
It was never built. And thus, in our age of toppling monuments, it never came down. But in October 1868, Thomas Nast imagined a monument to racial violence that continues to haunt us.
What constitutes terrorism? How the Philadelphia police turned a neighborhood to ashes and the desecration of the remains of the dead that followed.
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