
The Man Behind the Double V Campaign
Many may be aware of the Double V campaign, but few know of the 26-year-old who ignited the campaign.
Many may be aware of the Double V campaign, but few know of the 26-year-old who ignited the campaign.
The unlikely friendship between Jesse Owens and German-born track star Carl Ludwig “Luz” Long
Ayers argues that America should acknowledge the importance of emancipation with a national holiday.
The history of the Confederate Flag is full of myth and hearsay. So here's the truth of how it emerged during the Civil War—and its meaning then and now.
Lafayette Square is a popular destination for tourists and protestors seeking to engage the White House in their own ways; it’s also an enduring symbol of the American paradox between freedom and slavery.
Military historian Mark Grimsley makes the startling assertion that the American civil rights movement was an insurgency.
Jamie Montgomery failed, but his case set a precedent that ended chattel bondage in Scotland 12 years later
Roving merchant and slave trader approved of bondage system but saw freedmen as linchpin
Freedom Rider Jerome Smith stood up to Robert Kennedy with shocking candor about violence against black Americans
Self-destruction is seen as heroic instead of an act of cowardice
In her winning essay Mayumi Torres, a sixth grader at San Antonio's Pieper Ranch Middle School, profiles Texas-born rodeo legend Bill Pickett
Radical Republicans pushed for aggressive military policy, emancipation, and Western expansion
New Orlean, the Confederacy's largest and most commercially important city, fell to the Union in May 1862
Jesse Owens won a coup in Hitler's Germany, but today's NBA stars kowtow to China