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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...

On the road to Freedom Day, many black families left the South following the Emancipation Proclamation. They preferred being together under the Union Army’s protection...

The portmanteau word Juneteenth is from the words June and nineteenth and is often called Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, or Emancipation Day. It signified when...

May 31, 2021 will be the one-hundredth anniversary of the two-day massacre in Tulsa’s wealthy black community known as Deep Greenwood or Black Wall Street. Deep Greenwood...

Vivien Thomas was a carpenter and high school graduate in 1929 who saved his money to go to medical school. The 1929 Stock Market crash caused his bank to fail, it closed,...

In 1848, Ellen and William Craft devised an unusual and successful plan to escape slavery in the deep South of Macon, Georgia. Within eight days after devising the plan,...