School Desegregation
with Justin Driver
Learn more about the immediate aftermath and impact of the Brown decision.
Staff of Office (ȯkyeame)
Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century
View an example of a staff held by high ranking officials in West Africa.
The Path to Brown v. Board of Education
with Justin Driver
Learn more about the Brown v. Board case as it made its way to the Supreme Court and the Court’s historic decision.
The Black Campus Movement and African American Studies
with Clarence Taylor
Explore how the field of African American Studies evolved and the first university departments in the field were formed.
Nonviolent Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
by Robert Greene II
Learn more about nonviolent tactics and campaigns during the Civil Rights Movement.
“We’re the Only Colored People Here”
1945
Read a short story that would grow into Gwendolyn Brooks’s novel Maud Martha (1953).
Benjamin Banneker on Solar Eclipses
1789
Read Banneker’s letter analyzing the science of eclipses.
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.
Black Feminism: A History of Theory and Activism
by Dayo F. Gore
Learn more about the Combahee River Collective and other groups and individuals involved in shaping Black feminism in the twentieth century.
Black Internationalism and the Expansive Meanings of Freedom
by Merve Fejzula
Learn more about how those in the Black Freedom struggle came together across the African continent and diaspora in the 1930s through the 1970s.
“I Lifted Up Mine Eyes to Ghana”
by Keisha N. Blain
Explore W. E. B. Du Bois’s relationship with and advocacy for the anticolonial movement.
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