The daguerreotype records their faces, but not their names.
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Alabama unveils statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks | AP News
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A new statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was dedicated in Alabama’s capital city on Sunday, the 64th anniversary of her historic refusal to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man. Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed and Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey pulled back a cloth to […]
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The Deacons; the black armed Christians who protected MLK, civil rights supporters before Black Panther | Face2Face Africa
Given that African-Americans were an easy target in the 1950s and 1960s, the Ku Klux Klan – the white supremacist group – had a free reign, terrorizing and even murdering civil rights supporters. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The incessant attacks were so frequent that many civil rights workers armed themselves for self-protection. Even the home of Dr. […]
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He Survived A Near-Lynching. 50 Years Later, He’s Still Healing | NPR, Morning Edition
It was 1965 when Winfred Rembert, then 19, says he was almost killed by a group of white men. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “I’m 71. But I still wake up screaming and reliving things that happened to me,” Winfred, now 73, said. During a 2017 StoryCorps interview, Winfred told his wife, Patsy Rembert, 67, about the traumatic […]
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N.J. sending teachers to visit trans-Atlantic slave sites to teach black history in public schools | The Philadelphia Inquirer
New Jersey public school teachers will get to travel to trans-Atlantic sites associated with the slave trade to learn how to better teach black history — not just in February but year-round — to comply with a decades-old state mandate. The initiative was announced Friday as a new program under the state’s Amistad law, which […]
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Jim Crow Compounded the Grief of African American Mothers Whose Sons Were Killed in World War I | Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian Books presents ‘We Return Fighting,’ a groundbreaking exploration of African American involvement in World War I
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Civil Rights, One Person and One Photo at a Time | The New York Times
The hands of the father and his young daughter wave emphatically: the two are not in agreement. The man talks. His eyes are closed; he looks pained. The child listens, but gazes at a plate of cookies on the dinner table. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The scene is not unusual: a father is telling his daughter that […]
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Meet the Black Architect who designed Duke University 37 years before he could have attended it | SHOPPE BLACK
In 1902, when Julian F. Abele graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture, he was the school’s first-ever black graduate. The debonair Philadelphia-born architect went on to design hundreds of elegant public institutions, Gilded Age mansions, and huge swathes of a prestigious then-whites-only university’s campus. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Yet the fact that […]
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Rediscovering “The Hampton Album,” a Renowned Record of African-American History After the Civil War | Feature Shoot
Credited as the first female photojournalist in the United States, Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) received a commission in 1899 to photograph the Hampton Institute, a private historically Black university located in Hampton, Virginia. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Founded in 1868, just four years after the Civil War, the Hampton Institute was dedicated to the education of African-American […]
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NYC Monument Will Honor African-American Family Displaced to Make Way for Central Park | Smithsonian.com
But the project has drawn criticism, particularly because the monument will stand some 20 blocks north of Seneca Village’s historic location
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