Essential Methods of the Major Civil Rights Organizations
with Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Learn more about the major civil rights organizations of the 1950s and 1960s and their typical day-to-day operations.
Nonviolent Resistance and Civil Rights Activism
with Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Learn more about the impact of civil rights organizations on securing civil rights legislation and growing grassroots power.
James Forten, Sailmaker
by Julie Winch
Read about James Forten, an African American craftsman and businessman in nineteenth-century Philadelphia who employed an integrated workforce.
Black Women in Entrepreneurship
by Andrea Smith-Hunter
Learn about the challenges and opportunities Black women entrepreneurs face, from financial barriers to networking, mentorship, and growth.
HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience
with Ayesha Rascoe
Learn more about the experience of individuals who attended an HBCU.
Shaping the Public Imagination: The Sculpture of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
by Chenoa Baker
Read about the life and art of Fuller and some of her more famous pieces.
Laura Wheeler Waring: A Luminous Palette
by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Learn more about Laura Wheeler Waring’s portraiture, highlighting her luminous palette and contributions to African American art history.
The Cubist Collage Aesthetic and the Historical Narratives of Jacob Lawrence
by Patricia Hills
Read more about Jacob Lawrence’s use of cubist collage aesthetics to depict historical narratives in his artwork.
Land of a Thousand Dances
by Lucy Sante
Explore the history, and memory, of Soul Train.
Representation on the Stage, Screen, and Airwaves
by Kenya Davis-Hayes
Explore the history of Black performance from Reconstruction through the 1960s.
The Great Migration and the Making of Modern America
by Davarian L. Baldwin
Explore the impact of the “Exodus from Dixie.”
Afonso and the Slave Trade
by John K. Thornton
Explore the origins and evolution of the slave trade in Kongo and Portugal.
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