Black Women, the Civil War, and United States Colored Troops
In 1887, William J. Simmons, a United States Colored Troops (USCT) veteran turned historian, expressed his gratitude to Black
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Women
Gloria Richardson and Black Women’s Intellectual History
Gloria Richardson passed away on July 15, 2021, at the age of 99. Tributes have already poured in for the
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Black Women and American Freedom in Revolutionary America
What is the price of freedom? Is it worth the cost if failure means a return to slavery or death?
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Ada Wright, the Scottsboro Defense Campaign, and the Popular Front
In the midst of the Great Depression in 1931, nine Black teenage boys were falsely convicted of allegedly raping two
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Consumerism and Curation: Sarah Tate’s Resistance
On June 19, 1865, Sarah Tate was living about 160 miles west of Galveston, Texas, on the homestead of James
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