Karen Cook Bell

Local Politics and Black Freedom After the Civil War

On June 4, 1870 Joshua C. Legree opened an account with the Savannah, Georgia branch of the Freedmen’s Bank. Three

Lucia, a fourteen-year-old young girl transported to the Georgia Lowcountry during the 1760s, brought with her a deft understanding of

Historian John Dower has noted that “apart from the genocide of the Jews, racism remains one of the great neglected

In his 1935 interview with Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Quarterman, a ninety-one-year-old formerly enslaved man, shared a

Martin Luther King Jr. approached history with a reverent understanding of the complex relationship between the secular and the sacred.