Pennsylvania editor Oramel Barrett consigns Lincoln’s Gettysburg remarks to oblivion. It’s been 150 years […]
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Jackie Robinson: Baseball’s Noble Experiment
Jackie Robinson broke the “color line” in baseball, the first African American to play on an integrated major league team. He endured with dignity the racism of many fans and other players and opened major league ball for all black players.
Black History
Facts, Information And Articles About Black History In The United States.
Emancipation Proclamation
Information and Articles About the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln during the […]
Daily Quiz for October 23, 2011
The summer of 1919 in America was termed Red Summer because of a series of these events.
A Promise Fulfilled
The Emancipation Proclamation all but guaranteed the death of slavery, but exactly what that document did–and did not–do remains the subject of heated debate
‘The Birth of a Nation’: When Hollywood Glorified the KKK
Ninety years after its first screening and 100 years after the publication of the novel that inspired it, D.W. Griffith’s motion picture continues to be lauded for its cinematographic excellence and vilified for its racist content. The film came from Griffith’s personal vision, and as such it reflected the strengths and weaknesses of the man himself.
Martha Derby Perry: Eyewitness to the 1863 New York City Draft Riots
The wife of a bedridden Union surgeon was a horrified witness to the New York City Draft Riots of July 1863.
Book Review: Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War (James E. Westheider) : VN
Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War, by James E. Westheider, […]