The International Labor Defense's (ILD) involvement in the Scottsboro case, more than any other event, crystallized black support for the radical political movements, especially the Communist Party, in the 1930s.
In celebrating the Johnkankus, the community members were continuing an African folkway but also creating one of the first African-American traditions. A tradition that has lasted in various locations for two hundred and seventy-six years.
Most histories of mathematics devote only a few pages to Ancient Egypt and to northern Africa during the 'Middle Ages´. Generally they ignore the history of mathematics in Africa south of the Sahara and give the impression that this history either di
The emigration of blacks to Kansas began early in the spring of this year. For a time there was a stampede from two or three of the river parishes in Louisiana and as many counties opposite in Mississippi. Several thousand negroes (certainly not fewer t
In the 1920s and '30s, only Ford Motor Co. offered blacks a wide range of employment opportunities. No other auto companies considered blacks as capable as other workers. At Ford, blacks could work on the assembly line, in laboratories, in skilled tr
The primary objective of the "Jim Crow Experience in Montgomery County" oral interview project was to give high school students firsthand accounts of what life was like for African-Americans living in Montgomery County during segregation. Local
This is an effort to pay tribute to the many volunteer and paid firefighters of color. Not in recent years but in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
This website is dedicated to the history of our people in all aspects. From early slavery to current events. From Chrispus Attucks to Malcolm X. I will cover all that was not in the history books.
