Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington: A Little-known Encounter
by Adele Alexander
Learn the critical differences in attitude and approach taken by Douglass and Washington, and their 1892 encounter at the Tuskegee Institute.
The Persistence of Ida B. Wells: Reform Leader and Civil Rights Activist
by Kristina DuRocher
Learn more about Wells’s fight against lynching, her journalism, and her leadership in the civil rights movement.
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
with Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Explore the history of race, crime, and modern US history.
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
with Mia Bay
Learn more about the impact of Homer Plessy on segregation and discrimination of railroad travel.
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
with Chad Williams
Learn about W.E.B. Du Bois and his thoughts on the participation of Black Americans in the First World War.
The WPA Slave Narratives
by Robert C. Williams
Develop an understanding of the nuances behind recording narratives of formerly enslaved people during the Great Depression.
Maintaining the Freedmen’s Bureau
1866
Read the legislation that extended the life of the Freedmen’s Bureau.
“Hear the Lone Whistle Moan” / “copacetic”
by Alison Saar
View two pieces paying homage to the Harlem Renaissance.
“PARADE”
by Derek Fordjour
View an homage to historic parades through Harlem in this mosaic created in the New York City subway system.
The Freedmen’s Bureau and African American Families
by Justene Hill Edwards
Understand the roles the Freedmen’s Bureau played in supporting African American families and communities.
Largest African-American Migrations, by Metropolitan Area, 1975–2000
by Michael Siegel and Rutgers Cartography
Visualize demographic shifts in the African American population since the Great Migration.
The Exodusters and Black Towns, ca. 1900
by Michael Siegel and Rutgers Cartography
Explore an early phase of Black migration after the Civil War through this map.
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