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.
“What Is Slavery?”
with Brenda Stevenson
Explore how the globalization of trade propelled the business of slavery.
Food Deserts and the Rise of Fast Food
with Marcia Chatelain
Learn about the movement of fast food into predominantly African American neighborhoods and its connection to the larger issue of food deserts.
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.
The Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
with Matthew F. Delmont
Learn more about the history of World War II from the perspective of African Americans.
A History of the Enslaved Black Family
with Brenda Stevenson
Learn about the history of the Black family from the Middle Passage through Reconstruction.
The Life and Death of Roger Romine: A Tuskegee Airman Gone Too Soon
by Lisa Bratton
Read about the life of Robert Romine, member of the Tuskegee Airmen, an elite but segregated branch of the military in World War II.
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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