The compromise that ended Reconstruction
By Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard, President, ASALH When the Civil War ended in 1865, the…
Black History: Front & Center
Will blackface ever die?
White actor Al Jolson in blackface makeup in the movie “The Jazz Singer” By…
The Atlantic slave trade
In the United States, slaves were subject to sale at any time, to anyone and on such…
The legacy of lynching in America
The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Ind., 1930 BY JACQUELINE…
The critical role of education in the history of African Americans, part 3
The Black Panthers’ belief in the need for an education beyond what was being taught in…
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 JACQUELINE…
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…
The history and importance of historically black colleges and universities
Spelman College (1881) BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ASALH, President The overwhelming majority…
Justice Thurgood Marshall: A lion of the law
BY ATTY. JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ASALH President Thoroughgood Marshall was born in Baltimore…
The importance of the Declaration of Independence to African-American liberation
Frederick Douglass called the drafters of the Declaration ‘hypocrites’ for…
Plessy v. Ferguson: The beginning of Jim Crow
By Jacqueline Hubbard After Reconstruction, the United States Supreme Court on May 18,…
The history of black American’s right to vote
President Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr. at the signing of the Voting Rights Act on…
President Ulysses S. Grant: A friend of Reconstruction
The first black senator and representatives in the 41st and 42ndCongress of the United…
Silenced voices: From lynchings of the past to mass incarcerations of today
The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, 1930 By Jennifer Gamble-Theard To speak of…
Slavery in Virginia during the colonial period
This picture depicts the 20 men and women from Africa arriving on a slave ship and being…
Who needs history?
BY JENNIFER GAMBLE-THEARD, ASALH Historian Why is history important? Some may feel that…