First-person narratives of 27 former SC slaves edited from WPA slave narratives.

In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school desegregation and busing eru

Features correspondence between Nehru and his sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and includes various letters and family photographs. This book offers insights into N

Between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on Freedom, Shennette Garret

In the early 1960s, thousands of Black activists used nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation at lunch counters, movie theaters, skating rinks, public