Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington: A Little-known Encounter
by Adele Alexander
Learn the critical differences in attitude and approach taken by Douglass and Washington, and their 1892 encounter at the Tuskegee Institute.
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
with Mia Bay
Learn more about the impact of Homer Plessy on segregation and discrimination of railroad travel.
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
with Chad Williams
Learn about W.E.B. Du Bois and his thoughts on the participation of Black Americans in the First World War.
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
1865, 1868, and 1870
Read the three Reconstruction Amendments.
“Lift Every Voice and Sing”
1900
Read the lyrics composed by James Weldon Johnson for what has become known as the Black National Anthem.
“Negroes, Leave the South!”
1920
Read an anonymous editorial calling on African Americans to move north, east, and west for safety and opportunities.
Citizen’s Savings and Trust Company Clock
1920–2013
View this artifact of a financial institution founded for the purposes of growing Black wealth.
Establishing the Freedmen's Bureau
1865
Read the legislation creating the "bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned lands" amid the US Civil War.
Clarissa Reed Searches for Her Family
1883
Read a formerly enslaved woman’s plea for information about her lost parents and siblings.
White Supremacy in the Early Twentieth Century: Causes and Responses
with Adriane Lentz-Smith
Take a deep dive into the proliferation of white supremacist violence in the 1910s and 1920s, and responses from Black communities.
Segregated Water Fountains
n.d.
See another example of how Jim Crow discrimination was made manifest in the built environment.
The Freedmen’s Bureau and African American Families
by Justene Hill Edwards
Understand the roles the Freedmen’s Bureau played in supporting African American families and communities.
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