Posts Tagged ‘American history’
How Many Slaves Landed in the US?
Henry Louis Gates Jr. examines how many people were kidnapped from Africa and forced into enslavement in the west.
Read MoreWho Will Mourn George Whitmore?
George Whitmore’s experience in the criminal justice system and court of public opinion, only to be forgotten, leaves us questioning.
Read MoreAnti-Amalgamation Law Passed This Day in 1664
More than 350 years ago, Maryland made interracial marriages illegal between white women and Black men with the anti-amalgamation law.
Read MoreVoting Rights for Blacks and Poor Whites in the Jim Crow South
From about 1900 to 1965, most African Americans were not allowed to vote in the South. White people in power used many methods to keep black people from voting. Some of these methods also prevented poor white people from voting. Today there are still laws and customs that make it harder for African Americans, other minorities, and some whites to vote.
Read MoreThe Education of Black Children in the Jim Crow South
Education is the key to economic success. It is true now, and it was true in the Jim Crow South. Southern education was not very good – even for white children. But education for blacks in the South in the early 1900s was worse in many ways. In this exhibit you can learn what school was like for most African American children in the South – and why.
Read MoreToday Marks the Founding of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Many who don’t know the Association for the Study of African American Life and History know the Black History Month it inspired.
Read MoreInheriting Home: The Skeletons in Pa’s Closet
With its store of family memories, Arkansas defines home for me. But embracing and claiming it as my own is prickly business. “Home” has closets of skeletons that are anything but comforting: the Lost Cause, Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, lynchings.
Read MoreHistoric Sites and Black Self-Worth
A new partnership will present exhibits that shed light on the often-hidden history of Black Americans.
Read MoreHandwritten Letters Detail Lives Of Freed And Enslaved African Americans
Thanks to an invaluable find, we can peek into the private lives of African Americans over 150 years ago.
Read MoreEllen and William Craft Make a “Crafty” Escape from Slavery
The amazing tale of two courageous slave who dared to escape their situation is one we should all remember.
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