By Genevieve Carlton | Checked By Jaclyn AnglisPublished September 28, 2021 At the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, over 400 women disguised themselves in order to join in the fray. But…
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Breakfast with the Panthers
It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids than the state of California Suzanne Cope is a narrative journalist and professor at…
LBJ: ‘If You Can Convince the Lowest White Man He’s Better Than the Best Colored Man …’
President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who grew up in the South and understood the politics of racism from the inside, saw it in part as a ploy to divide and conquer.…
The Remarkable Legacy Of Jane Bolin, The First Black Female Judge In The United States
By Genevieve Carlton | Checked By John Kuroski Published May 14, 2021 Updated July 26, 2021 On July 22, 1939, Jane Bolin was sworn in as a judge in New York City. She…
Louis Southworth, slave who bought his freedom and homesteaded near Oregon coast, chosen as namesake of new park
Updated: Sep. 07, 2021, 9:32 a.m. | Published: Aug. 29, 2021, 7:47 a.m. By Cheri Brubaker | Yachats News Louis Southworth, who traveled the Oregon Trail to Oregon in the…
The Trailblazing Black Entrepreneurs Who Shaped a 19th-Century California Boomtown
Though founded by Confederates, Julian became a place of opportunity for people of color—and a model for what the U.S. could look like after the Civil War Marisa Agha April…
Meet Garrett Morgan, The Black Inventor Who Saved Lives With His Creations
By Genevieve Carlton | Checked By Erik Hawkins Published November 9, 2021 / Updated November 10, 2021 Garrett Augustus Morgan didn’t get his due until after his death in 1963 — despite inventing…
9 Unsung Civil Rights Leaders That You Didn’t Learn About In School
By Kaleena Fraga | Checked By Leah Silverman Published November 3, 2021 Despite their immense contributions to the civil rights movement, these activists were largely ignored by the history books…
The Story of Beverly L. Greene, the First Black Woman to Become a Licensed Architect in the U.S.
By CHARLOTTE BEACH MARCH 22, 2022 In your American history and social studies classes growing up, you likely weren’t taught about Beverly L. Greene. Despite being the first African American…
The Woman Whose Tireless Efforts Helped Launch The Famed Tuskegee Airmen
By Monica Danielle March 31 , 2022 Mary McLeod Bethune’s friendship with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt led to the desegregation of pilot training programs. The names of many women who…