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.
Ten Ways to Teach Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis and Say Burgin
Read about ten common misconceptions about Civil Rights legend Rosa Parks.
Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas
with Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie Harris
Learn how sexuality was a point of both exploitation and resistance for enslaved people.
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
with Kellie Carter Jackson
Explore the history of Black abolitionism in the antebellum period.
City of Refuge
with Marcus P. Nevius
Explore the history of freed peoples in the Great Dismal Swamp and their relationship to maroon communities.
Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
with James Oakes
Understand the evolution of the antislavery interpretation of the Constitution.
Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America
with Kabria Baumgartner
Explore how antebellum Black women became educators and activists, and the story of the first integrated classroom in the US.
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 Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
with Jeanne Theoharis
Learn how examining Rosa Parks’s life challenges perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement.
Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America
with Keisha N. Blain
Explore Fannie Lou Hamer’s life and civil rights organizing career.
An Introduction to Juneteenth
by Graham Hodges
Explore the history and commemoration of Juneteenth.
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
with Jeanne Theoharis
Watch author Jeanne Theoharis discuss Brown v. Board of Education and school desegregation in the North.
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