The Life of Malcolm X
with Tamara Payne
Examine previously unknown aspects of Malcolm X’s life.
The Life and Death of Roger Romine: A Tuskegee Airman Gone Too Soon
by Lisa Bratton
Read about the life of Robert Romine, member of the Tuskegee Airmen, an elite but segregated branch of the military in World War II.
The Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA
with Theresa Runstedtler
Learn more about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and others in the NBA and ABA of the 1960s and 1970s.
“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.
Activist for Equality: Frederick Douglass at 200
1808–1894
Explore Frederick Douglass’s life in bondage and freedom in this online exhibition.
Race and the American Constitution: A Struggle Toward National Ideals
by James Oliver Horton
Read how both pro-slavery and anti-slavery movements used the Constitution to promote their beliefs.
The Origins of Slavery
by Ira Berlin
Gain a greater understanding of the slave trade and the forced migration and diaspora of Africans.
The Civil Rights Movement
by Taylor Branch
Read an essay taking a bird's-eye view of the Civil Rights Movement.
The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies
by James T. Patterson
Read an overview of the landmark moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the twentieth century.
The Slave Narratives: A Genre and a Source
by David W. Blight
Examine narratives such as Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in this essay.
A Place in History: Historical Perspective on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
by James Oliver Horton
Read about the historical context for the formation of the modern civil rights movement and leadership.
The First Age of Reform
by Ronald G. Walters
Learn more about the debates related to colonization in the context of other antebellum reform movements.
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