Tiana U. Wilson - AAIHS

Domestic Workers and the Civil Rights Movement

In July 1971, over six hundred domestic workers from thirty different cities gathered together in Washington D.C. at the first

Stop referring to what happened in Los Angeles from August 11- 16, 1965 as the Watts Riot. Call the events

The contemporary “discovery” of unmarked graves and unburied bodies of African Americans remains a disturbing reality of the Black experience.

In 1946, Joe Louis, the heavyweight champion of the world, stood in front of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study