Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in the public domain. A freeborn Black abolitionist from Ohio, Joshua McCarter Simpson opened his 1854 indictment of the hypocrisy...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...the Chicago Defender, Jet, and Afro World. In the 1960s, SNCC used the photograph on posters to promote voting rights in Mississippi. More recently, it was used in the 2016...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Joseph AME Church. Shortly after the rally, 1,500 African Americans headed to Howard Johnson's to continue their protests. These protests persisted throughout the summer as part of the "Freedom Highways"...
Trouble the Land: Crow and Molasses
...for them was the beginning of the end. (0:28) Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor (Narrator): Amid the racial tensions of the post-war South, Atlanta's white leaders promoted their hometown as, "a city too...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...freedom. As the Bridge Crossing has grown in attendance and visibility, a diverse cast of civil rights, religious, and political figures, musicians and media celebrities, have walked the walk. In...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...and often in the best interests of the enslaved. The greatest obstacle slaves faced to freedom, Duden believed, was their racial inferiority. He asserted that no amount of education or...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...the secession crisis. An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies, Great Britain, August 28, 1833. Courtesy of the Freedom City virtual archive, Toronto Public Library. For...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...Guale, Timucua, Calusa, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Upper Creek, Lower Creek, and Seminole), Africans both free and enslaved, and various groups of pirates and adventurers. Frontispiece, 1775. Etching by Bernard Romans. Originally...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...for lifetime healthcare. One miner had lost his house and was sleeping in the local union hall. I followed him to a free clinic in Clay County, some distance away,...