1887—The U.S. Supreme Court declares the Civil Rights Act of 1885 unconstitutional. The decision was spurred by the end of Reconstruction and helped to usher in the Jim Crow period in the South ...
HUNTINGTON — Negro History Week was born out of the education of Black History, something that wasn’t commonly taught in the 1920s. Now, almost 100 years later, the legacy and teachings of Dr. Carter ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Printed handbill advertising Negro History Week programming at the Freedom House in Boston. The flier is on beige ...
The Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society of Oberlin broke ground last week on the second phase of its project to ...
In 2024, Major League Baseball officially incorporated the statistics of players from the segregated Negro Leagues into its record books in an effort to formally integrate some of the game’s greatest ...