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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...

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...