Out of the history of slavery times comes now and again a story of affairs so strangely foreign to these latter days as to seem untrue, if not impossible. An incident in point is the effort of Fredrick Wyatt, colored, of Ottawa, to establish his title to
"I have always worked and I have always been happy. I don't worry or grieve. I have lived a good true life - a Christian and faithful life. You have got to have faith." This philosophy of life has been the guideline of Eugie Jones Thomas, t
The introduction to Hosea Hudson's autobiography, Black Worker in the Deep South, tells us that "from his early years of striving to eke a livelihood for his family from the unyielding clay of Georgia, through his later years of organizing to wr
Who was Lucy Parsons? Her memory has vanished over the past six decades. But in the 1920s and '30s, the Chicago Police Department described her as "more dangerous than a thousand rioters."
You have a large number of people who never heard of Charlie Houston. But you're going to hear about him. [T]hat man was the engineer of all of it... if you do it legally, Charlie Houston made it possible.... -- Thurgood Marshall.
He worked as a carpenter in Charleston, distinguished for physical strength and energy."Among those of his color he was looked up to with awe and respect. His temper was impetuous and domineering in the extreme, qualifying him for the despotic rule o
Much is known about Emily Morgan, "The Yellow Rose of Texas." Emily was named Emily D. West at birth, but she took the name of her slave master and was known as Emily Morgan. Col. James K. Morgan brought Emily to Texas from New York in 1835.
