W.E.B. Du Bois led the Niagara Movement, a group of Black intellectuals who advocated for complete political, civil, and social rights for African Americans. This approach contrasted sharply with Booker…

On August 21, 1831, Nathanial "Nat" Turner (1800-1831) who was an enslaved man, led his people's rebellion. A new wave of harsh legislation was triggered, preventing enslaved people from getting…

Harriet Tubman was born on March 1822 in Araminta Rose. She was a political activist and abolitionist based in the United States. Harriet Green and Ben Rose, her parents, were…

“Let’s all sit together, as human beings should.” Greensboro citizens The Greensboro Sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests against racial segregation, beginning on February 1, 1960 in a lunch…

Freedom Summer, also known as the Mississippi Summer Project, was a voter registration drive held in 1964, where civil rights activists used peaceful means to increase the number of registered…

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was crucial in bringing attention to the issue of racial inequality in housing. The struggles of underserved populations to obtain fair…

Background and Context The Great Migration was primarily driven by push and pull factors. Racial violence, systematic racism, and economic hardship were push forces in the South. African Americans had…

In the United States,  slavery has been the official institution of human chattel enslavement, since its establishment in 1776 until the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in 1865, mostly by Africans…