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“The times requires this testimony”: William Still’s The Underground Railroad

William Still, the leader of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) Vigilance Committee, kept meticulous records on the hundreds of women

“I woke up feeling strangely happy. It has been accomplished! And I was still alive!” Philippa Duke Schuyler wrote these

In her suicide note on August 9, 1996, Black German activist-intellectual May Ayim sadly wrote, “I have lived and experienced

In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into

In April of this year at a press conference staged in front of the National Mall, Democratic Party politicians Ed