Great Migration
This video from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross explores the Great Migration and the idea that the Emancipation Proclamation did not live up…
Resenting Prosperity and Equality
Resenting Prosperity and Equality: This video from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross describes how white people’s resentment of African Americans’ prosperity and their…
St. Domingue
Learn about the slave revolt in St. Domingue (now Haiti) that led to the world’s first black republic in this video from The African Americans:…
Subjugation of African Americans
The video from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross provides an overview of the demonization of African Americans following the Emancipation Proclamation and the…
Double V and Black Americans’ Fight for Equality
Beyond the Battlefield: Double V and Black Americans’ Fight for Equality: Learn about the civil rights initiative during World War II known as the Double…
An African-American family duing the Great Migration
An African-American family leaves Florida for the North during the Great Depression (1930s).
A Great Day in Harlem (Harlem 1958)
A Great Day in Harlem or Harlem 1958 is a black-and-white photograph of 57 jazz musicians in Harlem, New York, taken by freelance photographer Art…
Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock Nine
Elizabeth Eckford, age 15, pursued by a mob, with Hazel Bryan Massery directly behind, at Little Rock Central High School on the first day of…
U.S. Marshals with Young Ruby Bridges on School Steps
On November 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges is escorted from her first day of school as a first grader at William Frantz Elementary School in New…
Lynching of Jesse Washington (1916)
Lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916. He was repeatedly lowered and raised onto a fire for about two hours. A…