The Racial Politics of Demobilizing USCT Regiments
On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee (commander of the Confederate States Army) formally surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant (commander
Read moreOn April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee (commander of the Confederate States Army) formally surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant (commander
Read moreChildren at Kosciusko Swimming Pool, Brooklyn, New York, 1970 (Wikimedia Commons) In The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs
Read moreIn an 1851 report to the Louisiana Medical Association, New Orleans physician Samuel Cartwright coined the term “drapetomania”—the disease that
Read moreIn the midst of the Great Depression in 1931, nine Black teenage boys were falsely convicted of allegedly raping two
Read moreGalveston, Texas, may best be remembered as the provenance of Juneteenth. However, in the universe of Black history, the island
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