For at least 118 years, the descendants of Livinia Blackburn Johnson have lived on the land in Northern Virginia that she and some other freed slaves acquired under an 1866 federal law that allowed them to own property.
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Civil Rights Movement Timeline From 1951 to 1959 | ThoughtCo
Key dates during the early days of the fight for racial equality
View MoreThe Secret History Of The Photo At The Center Of The Black Confederate Myth – BuzzFeed
A 160-year-old tintype depicting Andrew Chandler and his slave Silas, both in Confederate uniform, has long been used as evidence that slaves willingly fought against the army that aimed to free them. Following the national backlash against Confederate iconography, Silas’s descendants seek to debunk this once and for all.
View MoreSalem Poor – Black Past.Org
Salem Poor was a Patriot of the American Revolutionary War, credited primarily for his participation at the Battle at Charleston, now popularly known as The Battle of Bunker Hill.
View MoreThis Day in Black History: July 4, 1881 – BET
Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, holds first day of class, with Booker T. Washington serving as the first teacher.
View MoreDirector Damani Baker Tells the Story of Grenada and Black Migration Through His Mother’s Eyes – The Muse
The year was 1983. Fannie Haughton—a name unfamiliar to most—was living in Oakland, California, under a poisonous Reagan regime, in the middle of a drug war.
View MoreWhen gospel sermons came on the phonograph – The Conversation
The first truly African-American musical form, the “Spirituals,” took shape in the 17th and 18th centuries within the generations of slaves born into the tough American experience. Music was a daily part of their survival and sustenance.
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Ginger Smock and the Los Angeles Jazz Scene
View MoreA Unique African-American Culture, Hundreds of Years Old, That Could Go Extinct – Slate
Growing up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in the 1970s, Pete Marovich often overheard locals speaking “a rapid-fire language that sounded similar to English.”
View MoreA New Museum Will Celebrate The Special Place Blacks Hold In American Music History – A Plus
“This is the museum that will tell the story of the American soundtrack.”
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