Portrait of Michelle Obama
2018
View Amy Sherald’s portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama.
Portrait of Barack Obama
2018
Take a closer look at Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of the first Black president.
Mary Jackson at Work
1977
View an image of the first Black woman to be an engineer at NASA.
“Kathleen Cleaver on Natural Hair”
1968
Learn more about this element of Afrocentric aesthetics and the embrace of “Black is Beautiful.”
A Founder’s Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist
with Michael Thurmond
Learn how James Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia, helped to secure Ayuba bin Suleiman Diallo’s freedom.
“Emigration to Mexico”
1832
Explore a perspective on emigration in The Liberator.
Garnet’s Address in Context
by Jake Alspaugh
Understand the origins of Garnet’s speech.
Harriet, the Moses of Her People
1886
Read an authorized description of Tubman’s escape written by a White woman who had interviewed Tubman.
Harriet Tubman’s reflection in The Refugee
1856
Read Tubman’s memories of enslavement and freedom in her own words.
Free African American Population, 19th Century
by Michael Siegel
Explore the change in free Black populations over time across the North, South, and Midwest.
“The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave”
1832
This narrative was disseminated by the London Society for the Abolition of Slavery.
1964 SNCC Position Paper on Women in the Movement
by Michelle Moravec
Explore the origins of this SNCC memo and its authorship.
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