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The importance of Jan, 1 in America

BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ., President, ASALH One hundred and fifty-seven years ago, the…

BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ., ASALH President The word “terror” is defined by…

Black people were only allowed in downtown St. Petersburg except to go to work. Dr. Ralph…

After Reconstruction, the provision that allowed involuntary servitude for those…

Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching…

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened to the public on April 26,…

Thurgood Marshall was an African-American lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the…

The Tucker family can trace their lineage back to William, the first documented African…

Portrait of the first black senator, H. M. Revels of Mississippi (far left) and black…

BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ., ASALH President No, Harriet Tubman has not yet been placed…

BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ., ASALH, President Toni Morrison sadly passed away Aug. 5,…

Residents of the town of Ocoee, Fla., before the 1920 massacre BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD,…

A young black man drinks from a segregated water cooler in 1939 at a streetcar terminal…

Monroe Nathan Work BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ, ASALH President It is incredible how…

In 1991, excavators for a new federal office building in Manhattan unearthed the remains…

Teenager Jesse Washington was lynched and burned in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916. BY…

The Freedmen’s Bureau was created to give legal title for Field Order 15—better known…

JENNIFER GAMBLE-THEARD, M.ED., Historian The year 2019 marks 400 years that African…