How Benjamin Quarles overcame barriers to chronicle the Black experience | GUEST COMMENTARY
Benjamin Quarles, a celebrated historian at Morgan State University, faced an uphill battle to chronicle the Black experience ...
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Frederick Douglass
Beginning with his 1845 autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," Frederick Douglass provided fuel for the abolitionist movement. In 1854, the civil rights leader ...
How American monuments sometimes perpetuate white supremacy myths
Irvin Weathersby Jr. explores America’s museums and monuments in his new book, “In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy ...
A new biography of abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner
Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...
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Why is Black History Month the shortest of the year?
Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year. At first glance it ...
Black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, who lived on Long Island, helped shape the country's views on slavery
A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...
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Why is Black History Month the shortest of the year?
The celebratory week was set in February to coincide with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and President ... and influential abolitionist. His 1845 autobiography is still taught in U.S. schools ...