October 2023 – Our History Now

Racial Violence

Who Was Rubin Stacy

October 29, 2023

During the turbulent and tragic history of racism and injustice in the United States, the lynching of Rubin Stacy stands out as a shameful chapter [more…]

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Remembering Ida B. Wells

October 15, 2023

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Ida B. Wells, a remarkable figure in American history, was born during slavery in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Wells’ parents and one brother succumbed [more…]

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Joseph Hayne Rainey, First African American to serve in the United States House of Representatives.

October 2, 2023

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Joseph Hayne Rainey was born into slavery on June 1832 in Georgetown, South Carolina. After the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, Joseph Rainey, like [more…]

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Invisible Shackles: The Impact of Black Codes on African Americans In The Years Immediately Following the Civil War.

Forced Labor and Legal Loopholes: Conviction and Forced Labor After the 13th Amendment and Vagrancy Act of 1866

Remembering The Life of Dr. J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., African American Nuclear Physicist of the Manhattan Project

The 6888th Central Postal Battalion, Six Triple Eight. “No mail, no morale.”

Booker T. Spicely, A Victim of Jim Crow Violence

“ICYMT” Events That Made History This November

Harsh Realities. Who benefits, and who suffers and has suffered?

The Great Migration and Efforts to Suppress It.

The Lost Cause Myth, A Cycle of Historical Distortion and Racial Oppression. At The Start of The Jim Crow Era.

Invisible Shackles: The Impact of Black Codes on African Americans In The Years Immediately Following the Civil War.

Forced Labor and Legal Loopholes: Conviction and Forced Labor After the 13th Amendment and Vagrancy Act of 1866

Remembering The Life of Dr. J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., African American Nuclear Physicist of the Manhattan Project

Month: October 2023

Who Was Rubin Stacy

Remembering Ida B. Wells

Joseph Hayne Rainey, First African American to serve in the United States House of Representatives.

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