Black History: Front & Center –

The color line is still with us

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the…

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 Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH No, Harriet Tubman has not yet been…

By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH Toni Morrison sadly passed away Aug. 5,…

Residents of the town of Ocoee, Fla., before the 1920 massacre By Attorney Jacqueline…

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

Monroe Nathan Work By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH It is incredible how…

Shown are Civil War reenactors at a Juneteenth celebration in Eastwoods Park in 1900 in…

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

BY JENNIFER GAMBLE-THEARD, M.ED., ASALH Historian Although Black History Month occurs…

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…

By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH The Europeans, especially Spain,…

At least 12 million Africans, over the course of about 250 years, were kidnapped and sold…