In 1937, former slave Matilda Carter of Hampton, Virginia, recounted her experiences during the Civil War to Claude Anderson, a black interviewer employed by the Virginia Writers' Project.
The Rev. David Mwambila, a Kenyan living on the Indian Ocean coast, shares a deep emotional tie with black Americans -- his great-grandfather was a slave.
Fifty years ago, Ray Sprigle of the Post-Gazette posed as a black man to experience firsthand what life was like for 10 million people living under the system of legal segregation known as Jim Crow.
The Negro Historical and Industrial Exposition which was held in the city of Richmond, Virginia, from July 5 to July 27, inclusive, was in a number of ways interesting and encouraging, but in two respects was altogether preeminent. The first of these was
In 1848 Michael J. Eggart spoke to the Friendly Moralist Society, an exclusive group of free, light-skinned African-American Charlestonians, about their position in Charleston society. He claimed that free mulattoes lived on "a middle ground" de
Freetown Village is a living history museum which depicts the lives and lifestyles of free blacks in the year 1870. Freetown Village is a symbolic community representing many of the predominantly black settlements scattered throughout Indiana during the p
From Colonial times to the twentieth ``century, men of African ancestry ``were active in New England’s ``whaling industry as sailors, blacksmiths, shipbuilders, officers, & owners.
The Postal Service has issued Black History-related stamps to commemorate black men and women who have contributed to America's history and who have made a difference.
