Richard Allen, Jarena Lee, and the Second Great Awakening
by Margaret Washington
Read about the founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, a Self-Made Man
by Vincent Carretta
Explore Equiano’s life story and the influence of his autobiography on the abolitionist movement.
Phillis Wheatley, a “Genius in Bondage”
by Vincent Carretta
Explore the life, career, and legacy of the poet who was the first person of sub-Saharan African descent to publish a book.
The Development of Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic World
by Michael Guasco
Learn about global systems of slavery in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.
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.
“A Vote-less People Is a Hopeless People”: Lessons from Selma
by Robert A. Pratt
Learn about the history and legacy of the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
Frederick Douglass and the Dawn of Reconstruction
by Douglas R. Egerton
Explore Douglass's belief in the importance of the Emancipation Proclamation on Reconstruction.
Douglass and the US Constitution: The Dred Scott Decision
by Randall Kennedy
Explore Frederick Douglass‘s response to the Dred Scott case.
Frederick Douglass: An Example for the Twenty-First Century
by Noelle N. Trent
Explore Douglass’s legacy in this essay.
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.
The Heart and Soul of Fannie Lou Hamer
by Earnest N. Bracey
Read about the life and advocacy about Civil Rights leader and National Women’s Political Caucus cofounder Fannie Lou Hamer.
The Persistence of Ida B. Wells: Reform Leader and Civil Rights Activist
by Kristina DuRocher
Learn more about Wells’s fight against lynching, her journalism, and her leadership in the civil rights movement.
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