“The Birth of a New Nation”
1957
Read the sermon Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered after his visit to an independent Ghana.
Breakdancing at the Olympic Games
2024
See an example of breakdancing in performance at the Paris summer games.
“African Americans Going South, 1995–2000”
by Michael Siegel and Rutgers Cartography
Visualize a phase of Black migration at the end of the twentieth century.
“African American Population in Selected Cities, 1900–1920”
by Michael Siegel and Rutgers Cartography
Visualize some of the impact of the first wave of the Great Migration.
March on Washington Organizing Document
1963
Read instructions for a group of medical professionals ahead of the March on Washington.
Nonviolent Resistance and Civil Rights Activism
with Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Learn more about the impact of civil rights organizations on securing civil rights legislation and growing grassroots power.
African Americans and the Civil War
with Elizabeth R. Varon
Learn more about free and enslaved Africans’ contributions to the Union war effort.
Beyond the Battlefield: African American Contributions to the Civil War
with Elizabeth R. Varon
Learn more about the men, women, and children who contributed to the war effort through various means.
Legislating Reproduction and Racial Difference
from Women and the American Story, The New York Historical
Take a deep dive into the legal doctrine of partus sequitur ventrem.
The Civil Rights Movement
by Taylor Branch
Read an essay taking a bird's-eye view of the Civil Rights Movement.
The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies
by James T. Patterson
Read an overview of the landmark moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the twentieth century.
“Hidden Practices”: Frederick Douglass on Segregation and Black Achievement, 1887
by Edward L. Ayers
Analyze a letter written by Frederick Douglass describing his feelings on Black progress.
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