Dressing Freedom: The Wedding Clothing of Freed People
by Brenda E. Stevenson
Explore the importance of wedding clothing for freed people during Reconstruction.
Visualizing the Red Summer Timeline
2015–2025
Learn more about the White supremacist violence that took place in cities across the US in 1919.
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.
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
with Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Explore the history of race, crime, and modern US history.
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.
Kongo, Christianity, and the Diaspora
with John K. Thornton
Learn more about Kongolese cultural practices merging with Christianity and evolving across the Atlantic.
Kongo and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
with John K. Thornton
Explore the development and evolution of, and forms of resistance against, the Kongolese-Portuguese slave trade.
Christianity and the Kingdom of Kongo
with John K. Thornton
Take a deep dive into Nzinga a Nkuwu (João), Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso), and the Kingdom of Kongo's move to Catholicism.
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.
Textiles in the Kingdom of Kongo
with John K. Thornton
Learn more about the development of textiles in Kongo.
Africa's Major Rivers
by Exploring Africa, Michigan State University
View some of the key geography of the African continent.
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