“A Red Record”
1895
Read an excerpt from Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s analysis of lynchings in the US at the end of the nineteenth century.
The Black Middle Class Needs Attention Too
2020
Read excerpts and view charts from a report on the state of the Black middle class.
Diversity in Contemporary Black Communities
by Mamadi Corra
Learn more about shifts in the foreign-born Black population and its consequent impacts on the diversity of African Americans today.
Antebellum Black Women Resisting Enslavement
by Emma Lapsansky-Werner
Explore Black women’s role in the Christiana Resistance, the abolitionist press, and other means of resisting enslavement.
Preliminary Declaration from the Constitution of Haiti
1805
Read a translation of some of Haiti’s founding principles as an independent nation.
Arkansas Petition for Freedmen’s Rights
1869
Read a petition on behalf of formerly enslaved African Americans on indigenous territory requesting tribal citizenship and benefits.
“Walker’s Appeal”
1829
Black abolitionist David Walker wrote a powerful pamphlet on the effects of enslavement on African Americans and what enslaved people should do to escape.
The First Age of Reform
by Ronald G. Walters
Learn more about the debates related to colonization in the context of other antebellum reform movements.
“Hidden Practices”: Frederick Douglass on Segregation and Black Achievement, 1887
by Edward L. Ayers
Analyze a letter written by Frederick Douglass describing his feelings on Black progress.
“We're the Only Colored People Here”
1945
Read a short story that would grow into Gwendolyn Brooks’s novel Maud Martha (1953).
“Emigration to Mexico”
1832
Explore a perspective on emigration in The Liberator.
“Flying Home: Harlem Heroes and Heroines”
by Faith Ringgold
View a fantastical homage to Harlem history through this work of art in the New York City subway.
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