by News Headlines | May 24, 2022 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black News-Africa and Diaspora, Current News Headlines
In 1862, more than 900 enslavers living in the nation’s capital received money compensating them for the immediate emancipation of the more than 3,000 people they enslaved. The payments — averaging about $300 per enslaved person, equal to $8,587 in today’s money —...
by News Headlines | May 24, 2022 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
One day in June 1892, a 28-year-old Black man accused of sexually assaulting a white woman was lynched in front of a crowd of 2,000 spectators. Lynching wasn’t uncommon in post-Reconstruction America—there were over 1,100 lynchings, mostly of African Americans, in the...
by News Headlines | May 23, 2022 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
SAVANNAH — The City of Savannah’s Municipal Archives, in partnership with Georgia Southern University, opened the new online exhibit “Jim Crow in Savannah’s Parks,” examining how Savannah denied Black people access to the best public parks and recreational facilities,...
by News Headlines | May 20, 2022 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Source: Frédéric Soltan / Getty Today marks one of the more complicated celebrations of Malcolm X’s birthday. The New York Times reported earlier this year that the two men who were wrongfully convicted of killing the civil rights leader were exonerated. The...
by News Headlines | May 20, 2022 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
It’s one thing to learn about history in school or from books and another to actually experience the stories for yourself. For an authentic experience about U.S. Civil Rights History, plan a trip to Alabama and see where it happened and what resulted. Follow the Civil...
by News Headlines | May 20, 2022 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
This paper posits that primary sources meant for public consumption best allow the historian to understand how intersections between race and gender were used, consciously or not, to advocate for social attitudes and public policy in the United States and the English...
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