Jack Johnson
by Eddie Flier
View this artistic homage to boxing champion Jack Johnson.
Hidden History: Jack Johnson
with Samuel Collins III, Linda Heywood, and Bob Spagnola
Explore the life and legacy of the “Galveston Giant” and champion boxer.
Hidden History: African American Women During Reconstruction
with Rebecca Czuchry
Explore responses by Black Texan women to racial violence in the wake of the Civil War.
“Dr. Charles Drew and Freedman’s Hospital”
1945
Explore a notable event in Black medical history captured in a newsreel.
The Evolution of African American Music
by Portia K. Maultsby
View how African American music evolved over the course of four hundred years through this timeline.
The Origins and Elements of Hip-Hop
with Jeff Chang
Learn more about the genres, composers, and performers who developed the building blocks for what would become hip-hop.
The Evolution of Hip-Hop and Breakdancing
with Jeff Chang
Explore the development of turntables, sampling, and breakdancing as key elements of hip-hop artistry and culture.
The Influence of the 1960s and 1970s on Hip-Hop
with Jeff Chang
Explore the importance of place and community on the development and growth of hip-hop in its earliest days.
“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.
Black Internationalism and the Expansive Meanings of Freedom
by Merve Fejzula
Learn more about how those in the Black Freedom struggle came together across the African continent and diaspora in the 1930s through the 1970s.
Black American Contributions to Modern Medicine
by George Aumoithe
Learn more about how Black medical professionals overcame obstacles in the field and innovated despite exclusion.
NAACP Civil Rights Convention
1947
View this photograph of four activists in the wake of the Double V movement taken by Joe Schwartz.
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