On April 9, 1865, the long and bloody American Civil War finally came to an end. It had already been two years since President Abraham Lincoln issued …
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Jim Crow and the deep wounds it inflicted on American society are not relegated to the past tense. Learn about the growth, death and legacy of Jim Crow laws.
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Across the globe language and history are inevitably intertwined. Linguistic origins are borrowed and transformed, and as society changes, new words …
For the better part of a century, African Americans lived under the burden of what now are known as Jim Crow laws. This racist system of segregating …
Growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s, the author and playwright Calvin Alexander Ramsey never really questioned why his family, like all other Black …
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a group of scientists and historians is on the verge of unearthing a chunk of the city's past that long has been buried, and one …
At the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, near a spot in the water where Maryland, Virginia, and the easternmost tip of West Virginia …
When we hear the term "Underground Railroad," we usually think of the network of secret overland routes traversed by fugitive slaves escaping north …
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