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.
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.
Black Land Ownership in the Jim Crow Era
with Alison Rose Jefferson and Sandra Trenholm
Explore the history of the Black-owned Eureka Villa housing development in 1920s California.
“How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping”
1900
Read Nannie Helen Burroughs’s address casting light on the importance of women organizing in Black institutions.
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
1865, 1868, and 1870
Read the three Reconstruction Amendments.
“Lift Every Voice and Sing”
1900
Read the lyrics composed by James Weldon Johnson for what has become known as the Black National Anthem.
“Negroes, Leave the South!”
1920
Read an anonymous editorial calling on African Americans to move north, east, and west for safety and opportunities.
“We Wear the Mask”
1895
Read Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem, which poses a “mask” similar to Du Bois’s “veil.”
“If We Must Die”
1919
Read Claude McKay’s defiant poem, in response to violence against African Americans following World War I.
Citizen’s Savings and Trust Company Clock
1920–2013
View this artifact of a financial institution founded for the purposes of growing Black wealth.
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