Our History Now – Page 3 – Learning Our History to Understand our Present and Prepare For the Future

Inside The Little-Known History Of America’s Sundown Towns — Which Banned Black People After Dark

Inside The Little-Known History Of America’s Sundown Towns — Which Banned Black People After Dark

How Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” Shocked Listeners With Its Brutal Confrontation of Racism

How Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” Shocked Listeners With Its Brutal Confrontation of Racism

Forgotten Heroine, Ethel Payne: Pioneer of the Black Press

Forgotten Heroine, Ethel Payne: Pioneer of the Black Press

How the Freedman’s Savings Bank Failed Formerly Enslaved Americans

How the Freedman’s Savings Bank Failed Formerly Enslaved Americans

Meet William Harvey Carney, The Fearless Civil War Soldier Who Never Let The American Flag Fall In Battle

Meet William Harvey Carney, The Fearless Civil War Soldier Who Never Let The American Flag Fall In Battle

The Story Of The 1919 Elaine Race Massacre That You Didn’t Learn In School

The Story Of The 1919 Elaine Race Massacre That You Didn’t Learn In School

National Inventors Hall of Fame will induct two Black women for the first time in history

National Inventors Hall of Fame will induct two Black women for the first time in history

How a 1946 dispute over a broken radio in Tennessee helped spark the civil rights movement

How a 1946 dispute over a broken radio in Tennessee helped spark the civil rights movement

How Motown Broke Racial Barriers Like No Other Record Label

How Motown Broke Racial Barriers Like No Other Record Label

How Oregon’s Second Largest City Vanished in a Day

How Oregon’s Second Largest City Vanished in a Day