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: John Rufus Gibson
with Samuel Collins III and Joan Marshall
Explore the life and legacy of a key figure in Texas Black history.
Hidden History: Jessie McGuire Dent
with Tommie Boudreaux, Samuel Collins III, Diane Henderson, and Faye Williams
Explore McGuire Dent’s role in fighting racial discrimination and organizing the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
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.
Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics
with Anastasia C. Curwood
Learn more about Chisholm’s life and career.
Doctor Cuffee Saunders
1781
Read about how Cuffee Wells Saunders gained his freedom.
Essential Methods of the Major Civil Rights Organizations
with Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Learn more about the major civil rights organizations of the 1950s and 1960s and their typical day-to-day operations.
Bad Brains in Concert
1982
Learn more about this foundational all-Black punk band through this concert flyer.
“UNLADYLIKE2020: Gladys Bentley”
with Lorraine Toussaint and Lisa Wilkerson
Learn more about this trailblazing pianist, musician, and drag entertainer.
NAACP Civil Rights Convention
1947
View this photograph of four activists in the wake of the Double V movement taken by Joe Schwartz.
Responses to and Impact of Housing Discrimination
with Richard Rothstein
Learn more about how African Americans fought against housing discrimination.
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