Sundown towns
Black people were only allowed in downtown St. Petersburg except to go to work. Dr. Ralph…
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The struggle for the Civil War Amendments
After Reconstruction, the provision that allowed involuntary servitude for those…
Ida B. Wells Barnett and the Anti-Lynching Movement
Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching…
The Equal Justice Initiative and what it has taught us
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened to the public on April 26,…
Affirmative Action is on life support
Thurgood Marshall was an African-American lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the…
400 Years: Commemoration of those who came first
The Tucker family can trace their lineage back to William, the first documented African…
Reconstruction: The second Civil War
Portrait of the first black senator, H. M. Revels of Mississippi (far left) and black…
Harriet Tubman: Soul warrior
BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ., ASALH President No, Harriet Tubman has not yet been placed…
Let us praise Toni Morrison
BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ., ASALH, President Toni Morrison sadly passed away Aug. 5,…
The 1920 Ocoee massacre
Residents of the town of Ocoee, Fla., before the 1920 massacre BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD,…
Segregation in America
A young black man drinks from a segregated water cooler in 1939 at a streetcar terminal…
Monroe Nathan Work: An unsung hero of lynching history
Monroe Nathan Work BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ, ASALH President It is incredible how…
A brief history of slavery in New York
In 1991, excavators for a new federal office building in Manhattan unearthed the remains…
Lynching as a system of terror in America
Teenager Jesse Washington was lynched and burned in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916. BY…
The idea of reparations for slavery
The Freedmen’s Bureau was created to give legal title for Field Order 15—better known…
400 years of movement and migration
JENNIFER GAMBLE-THEARD, M.ED., Historian The year 2019 marks 400 years that African…
The long journey to the 13th Amendment
BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ., ASALH, president The 13th Amendment to the United States…
ASALH celebrates the life of Arthur Ashe
Dr. Raymond Arsenault and Judge Charles Williams BY FRANK DROUZAS, Staff Writer ST.…