AP African American Studies Resource Archive | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

A black and white photograph of Nannie Helen Burroughs, a young Black woman, shown seated from the waist up, wearing a dark hat with a white feather and a white blouse

“How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping”

1900

Read Nannie Helen Burroughs’s address casting light on the importance of women organizing in Black institutions.

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Title page of My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

“Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation”

1855

Read Frederick Douglass’s recollection of plantation life in Maryland from his second autobiography.

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A bespectacled Shirley Chisholm looking to her right while wearing a dark turtleneck and necklaces.

Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics

with Anastasia C. Curwood

Learn more about Chisholm’s life and career.

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Etta Moten Barnett, a Black woman wearing a multicolored dress and white necklace, standing next to the metal gates in front of her house.

Etta Moten Barnett and Martin Luther King, Jr. in Ghana

1957

Hear from King during his visit to Ghana, in conversation with actress, musician, and journalist Etta Moten Barnett.

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