This presentation will highlight some of the most important federal records for identifying former slaves and slave owners, including: Census Civil War and later military service and pensi...
1,135 viewsIn They Were Her Property, historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers has written a book that bridges women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history. Rather than land, women typica...
1,431 viewsThe Stars for Freedom–a handful of celebrities both black and white–risked their careers by crusading for racial equality. Focusing on the “Leading Six” trailblazers—Harry Belafonte, Ossie D...
1,419 viewsAfrican American Life in Washington, DC, Before Emancipation As Washington became the focus of abolitionism before the Civil War, antislavery activists argued that the sight of slavery and slave deal...
1,165 viewsArchives technician Matthew Margis discusses the history of African American soldiers in World War I through the photographic holdings in the National Archives. ⇒ Event Evaluation Form: https://ww...
1,143 viewsChief Librarian Jeffery Hartley discusses the history and contents of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set for family history research. The presentation includes African American genealogy and a demonstr...
1,138 viewsIn 1862, the DC Emancipation Act freed enslaved persons in the District of Columbia. Damani Davis, archivist, discusses petitions filed by owners and slaves under the Act. ⇒ Event Evaluation Form:...
1,140 viewsTina L. Ligon, archivist, will discuss records relating to desegregation, integration, and studies on black education. She will cover the Brown v. Board of Education case, the Little Rock Nine crisis,...
1,108 viewsArchives specialist Netisha Currie describes records relating to African American history held in our vault as well as unrestricted records available from our stacks. - Handout: http://www.archives...
1,157 viewsJames Dator (Goucher College Professor of History and Africana Studies) explains the origins, causes, and changing nature of racism and race ideology in the United States from 1619 to the present.
1,296 viewsDr.Frances Cress Welsing was an American Afrocentrist psychiatrist. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism, offered her interpretation on the origins of what she described ...
2,082 viewsMore black men are in prison today than are in college. The underperformance of African-American males in elementary and secondary schools is a persistent crisis. Sharokky Hollie, founder of the Calif...
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