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1877: The end of Reconstruction and the beginning of American apartheid

An 1867 illustration depicting Black people participating in a New Orleans election…

Harold Goodwin, assistant head coach and running game coordinator; Keith Armstrong,…

By Attorney Jacqueline Williams Hubbard Born in 1883 in Charleston, S.C., Dr. Ernest…

BY JACQUELINE HUBBARD, ESQ., ASALH President Dr. Carter G. Woodson is called the…

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…