Jim Crow - AAIHS

Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line

While America’s urban areas witnessed a massive boom in the popularity of motion pictures and moviegoing in the early twentieth

On May 22, 1917, the lynching of Ell Persons, a Black woodcutter, occurred in a carnival-type setting in Memphis, Tennessee.

On the occasion of the recent sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington, many of us celebrated and remembered those who

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a pastor, civil rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, author, son, husband, and father. It took

Many of us take for granted the ease of our particular American-style mobility. We can go wherever we want to,