The New York Silent Protest Parade in Photographs
1917
Explore this response to white supremacist violence led by the NAACP.
The Origins of African American Musical Traditions
with Portia K. Maultsby
Explore the building blocks of African American music and performance.
The Great Dismal Swamp
with Marcus P. Nevius
Learn why this region of Virginia and North Carolina became fertile ground for maroon communities.
Hockey Clubs in Black Communities
with George and Darril Fosty
Learn more about hockey as a place of Black community organization.
Benjamin Banneker’s Study of the Cicada
1800
Read Banneker’s derivation of the seventeen-year cycle of the cicada, one of the first scientists to make this observation.
Diasporic Solidarity and the Cuban Revolution
with Danielle Pilar Clealand
Learn more about the African American community’s response to the Cuban Revolution in the 1950s and 1960s.
Building the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School
1965–1966
View early documents from a center for the Black Arts movement in Harlem, founded by the poet LeRoi Jones (aka Amiri Baraka).
The Union Army and Juneteenth
1865
Learn more about the origins of Juneteenth through this print.
“I Too”: Langston Hughes’s Afro-Whitmanian Affirmation
by Steven Tracy
Explore Hughes' "I, Too" poem, its connection to Walt Whitman, and its role in affirming Black identity in America.
Clarksdale: Myth, Music, and Mercy in the Mississippi Delta
by Shelley Ritter
Read about musician Muddy Waters, the blues, and the historical exhibits at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Robert Johnson and the Rise of the Blues
by Elijah Wald
Read about Robert Johnson and the rise and evolution of blues music.
Jackie Robinson
with Jason Butler, Taína Quiñones, and Sandra Trenholm
Explore a comic book about Jackie Robinson’s rookie year and letters written by Richard Nixon and Robert Kennedy to Jackie Robinson about the Civil Rights Movement.
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