City of Refuge
with Marcus P. Nevius
Explore the history of freed peoples in the Great Dismal Swamp and their relationship to maroon communities.
Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
with James Oakes
Understand the evolution of the antislavery interpretation of the Constitution.
Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America
with Kabria Baumgartner
Explore how antebellum Black women became educators and activists, and the story of the first integrated classroom in the US.
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 Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
with Jeanne Theoharis
Learn how examining Rosa Parks’s life challenges perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement.
Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America
with Keisha N. Blain
Explore Fannie Lou Hamer’s life and civil rights organizing career.
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
with Jeanne Theoharis
Watch author Jeanne Theoharis discuss Brown v. Board of Education and school desegregation in the North.
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley
with David Waldstreicher
Explore the life of this Black, female poet who published a book of poems while enslaved, and learn about the reactions to her work at the time.
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.
A History of the Enslaved Black Family
with Brenda Stevenson
Learn about the history of the Black family from the Middle Passage through Reconstruction.
Douglass and the US Constitution: The Dred Scott Decision
by Randall Kennedy
Explore Frederick Douglass‘s response to the Dred Scott case.
Constance Baker Motley: A Trailblazer in the Legal Profession
by Gary L. Ford, Jr.
Read about the life and work of Constance Baker Motley, the only woman who argued desegregation cases in courts in the racially segregated South during the Civil Rights Movement from 1946 to 1964.
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