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Dr. Ernest E. Just was born in 1883, after the Reconstruction era in Charleston, South Carolina. It was a time when blacks joined the Republican Party, began to vote, and...

Fisk University was founded in 1866 in Nashville, Tennessee, as a predominately black university. In 1871, the school was in financial need, and the choir director, George...

Using the pen name Robert Hayden, Asa Bundy Sheffey was a gifted poet who wrote elegant poems about black history and other African American themes. Shortly after his birth...

Annie Bethel Bannister was the only child of Sarah Louise Scales and Joel Cephus Bannister who were freed slaves. Born in 1882, and at the age of eleven, Annie was enrolled...

Paul R. Williams was a great architect, artist, leader, and trailblazer with wide-ranging, compelling designs for residential and commercial use. Paul took an interest in...

The Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society invited Frederick Douglass to give a keynote oration at an Independence Day Celebration on July 5, 1852, in front of President...

General Order #3 was based on the Emancipation Proclamation that President Abraham Lincoln issued on New Year’s Day, 1863. When General Gordan Granger was sent to Galveston,...

The history of Texas is distinctively different from other states because of its revolt from Mexico, its experience of being an independent republic, and finally, its...

President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation Executive Order went into effect on January 1, 1863, but blacks desired to be active in their emancipation. A few months after...