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A symbol of hope and resilience, NC Mutual provided essential financial support to African American and working-class communities for more than a century.
The Gold Dust Twins advertising campaign used caricatured Black children to sell cleaning products, which reinforced racist stereotypes and white nostalgic myths of Black servitude in the 20th-century United States.
Mose Wright’s 1955 testimony at the trial of Emmett Till’s murderers demonstrates that fear did not hinder Black resistance during the civil rights era.
Preaching peace, yet struck down by violence, the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reshaped America’s urban spaces and fundamentally changed how the country remembers this civil rights leader.
From Phillis Wheatley Peters to Ida B. Wells-Barnett, leading Black women activists defined their public images through their portraits to advance their ideas.
Slavery ended in 1865. But many Black Southerners remained unfree laborers under the convict leasing system.
Without images of African Americans, depictions of important military moments are incomplete.
The life and work of W. E. B. Du Bois, writer, educator, and chronicler of Black life in America.
With integration a legal right, swimming pools became a new battleground in the segregation fight.
Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, the National Association of Colored Women, and the foundations of Black women’s struggles today.