Mary E. Pleasant: Reshaping the Landscape of Segregation in California
Between the 1830s and 1890s, the Colored Conventions Movement transformed Black political organizing across the US. Of the thirty states
Read moreBetween the 1830s and 1890s, the Colored Conventions Movement transformed Black political organizing across the US. Of the thirty states
Read moreThe News Orleans daily newspaper the Times-Picayune, since its founding on January 25, 1837, and throughout 1914, when it merged
Read moreMargaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence
Read moreOn November 2, 1914, twenty eight-year-old James H. Teagle, the “colored” chauffeur for Philadelphia City Controller John Walton, left his
Read moreThroughout much of the twentieth century, Florida’s warm climate and long sunny days managed to attract the nation’s elites. The
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