Black Family

The Familial Fight Against Racism

The Civil War remains one of the most discussed and published historical topics. Often, public and academic discourse on

On March 5, 1770, a twenty-three-year-old woman, her eight-month-old daughter, and her husband escaped from bondage in Leacock Township in

By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a

In late 1892, a railroad operator approached activist-journalist Ida B. Wells to inquire why the Black community of Memphis, Tennessee, had been

Of all the Black-owned businesses that thrived on “Black Wall Street,” it is the Dreamland Theatre that stands as the