Lynching as a system of terror in America
Teenager Jesse Washington was lynched and burned in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916. BY…
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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.…
Mass incarceration of African Americans
BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ., ASALH President In a 2019 post by the American Civil…
Why we need to know about our history?
BY JENNIFER GAMBLE-THEARD, M.ED. It’s a serious matter to know the history of African…
The North Star: A symbol of inspiration and hope
BY JENNIFER GAMBLE THEARD, M.Ed., ASALH Historian The North Star is the anchor of the…
The Emancipation Proclamation
Caption: Former slave, Sally Fickland, views the Emancipation Proclamation in 1947. BY…
The great James Baldwin
BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ., President, ASALH Without a doubt, James Baldwin was one of…
Frederick Douglass and the hypocrisy of American slavery
BY Jacqueline Hubbard, Esq., ASALH President There is one African American who survived…
Exploring the connections between Thanksgiving and black people during the Civil War
Slaves prepared their escapes on Thanksgiving Day. BY JENNIFER GAMBLE-THEARD,…
The compromise that ended Reconstruction
BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ., ASALH President When the Civil War ended in 1865, the Union…
The Atlantic slave trade
In the United States, slaves were subject to sale at any time, to anyone and on such…
The critical role of education in the history of African Americans, Part 2
Students and teachers at the Noble Hill School in Cassville, Ga., in 1925. BY JENNIFER…
The critical role of education in the history of African Americans, Part l
As a young enslaved boy in Baltimore, Frederick Douglass bartered pieces of bread for…
The Fort Pillow Massacre of black Union troops in 1864
Fort Pillow Massacre as depicted by “Harper’s Weekly,” April 1864. BY…
From Reconstruction Amendments to the present day pursuit of democracy
In 1944, the Detroit chapter of the NAACP held a mock-funeral for Jim Crow BY…