Sundown towns
Black people were not allowed in downtown St. Petersburg except to go to work. Dr. Ralph…
Black History: Front & Center
The struggle for the Civil War Amendments
After Reconstruction, the provision that allowed involuntary servitude for those…
The color line is still with us
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the…
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 Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH No, Harriet Tubman has not yet been…
Let us praise Toni Morrison
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH Toni Morrison sadly passed away Aug. 5,…
The 1920 Ocoee massacre
Residents of the town of Ocoee, Fla., before the 1920 massacre By Attorney Jacqueline…
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 Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH It is incredible how…
In commemoration of Juneteenth
Shown are Civil War reenactors at a Juneteenth celebration in Eastwoods Park in 1900 in…
A brief history of slavery in New York
In 1991, excavators for a new federal office building in Manhattan unearthed the remains…
African American firsts
BY JENNIFER GAMBLE-THEARD, M.ED., ASALH Historian Although Black History Month occurs…
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…