AP African American Studies Resource Archive | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Detail from a multicolored map depicting enslaved population by county in the South, along with government farms and camps set up by the Union Army during the Civil War.

Emancipation: Separating Myth from Fact

with Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie

Break down common misconceptions about the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment in this video.

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A black-and-white photograph of a Black man wearing a dark top hat and suit riding a horse leading a procession including a band of musicians down a dirt road

Freedom Days in American History

with Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie

Learn more about the long history of celebrating emancipation, from January 1, to August 1, to Juneteenth.

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A black-and-white photograph of a Black man wearing a light-colored suit and dark bowler hat walking with a cane in his right hand; in the background is rubble of buildings destroyed in the Tulsa Race Massacre.

Tulsa after the Greenwood Massacre

1925–1926

View silent film scenes of Tulsa’s Black institutions and organizations in the mid-1920s.

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A color photograph of W. E. B. Du Bois, wearing a brown pinstriped suit, white shirt, and blue-and-gray checked tie, against a background of multicolored spirals.

“I Lifted Up Mine Eyes to Ghana”

by Keisha N. Blain

Explore W. E. B. Du Bois’s relationship with and advocacy for the anticolonial movement.

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