segregation – AAIHS

Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it

Elgin Baylor would not shut up and dribble. Baylor, who grew up in segregated Washington, D.C., had grown tired of

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Jon Hale as

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by Zebulon Miletsky and

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Paige