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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1928-1968)
“The Time is Always Right to Do What is Right” In ten years, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote more than two thousand five hundred speeches about segregation, prejudice, and...
Teaching Critical Thinking
Students need to be encouraged to evaluate and analyze information from historical data and documentary evidence. A curriculum that engages students in historical inquiry...
Black Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients
Black Americans have served in every one of America’s conflicts since the Revolutionary War. In the Revolutionary War, blacks served in an integrated army and helped free...
Successful Black Women in Victorian America
In April 1865, Frederick Douglass spoke to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and said: "Everybody asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the...
Charter Schools, A Battle Worth Fighting
It is not news that many parents want their children to get a quality education in a safe environment. In 1848, Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became a prominent...
How Eugenics Came to America
Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., recently commented that the Democratic Party is moving too far left. King criticized Democratic Senator Bernie...
Slavery Loophole
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, says “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party...
The Shame of America
Ida B. Wells, an early anti-lynching advocate who virtually worked alone, exposed the unspeakable brutality of a violent mob with their “unwritten law” that justified...
Black Architects that Made America Great
Before the Civil War, blacks learned the building trade to benefit their owners, but after the Civil War, they passed their skills to their children and these budding...
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