Explore Black History: History
No figure is more closely identified with the mid-20th century struggle for civil rights than Martin Luther King Jr. His adoption of nonviolent resistance to achieve equal rights for Black Americans earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
40 Years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study
600 poor, black men were enrolled in a study commissioned by the U.S. Public Health Service. The subjects were told they would receive treatment for syphilis. They actually received no medical treatment at all.
Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass experienced the Civil War, emancipation, Black men getting the right to vote, and the terrors and humiliations of Jim Crow.
Through it all, he kept coming back to voting as the heart of American democracy. Listen to the podcast The Most Sacred Right.
Malcolm X: Who was he and what role did he play in the civil rights movement?
Five Afrolatinx freedom fighters in history that you should know about.
The murder of Emmett Till, a 14 year old black child, murdered in Mississippi in 1955 was the spark that helped mobilize the civil rights movement.
More than 4,000 black Americans were lynched in the United States between 1865 and 1950.
The Maryland Lynching Memorial Project documents the history of racial lynchings in Maryland and advocates for public acknowledgement of these murders, working to honor and dignify the lives of the victims.
Tulsa was recognized for its affluent African American community referred to as, “Black Wall Street.” The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 killed hundreds of residents, burned more than 1,250 homes and erased years of Black success.
Created to capture and control enslaved people, runaway ads ultimately preserved the details of individual lives. Freedom on the Move is compiling thousands of these stories.
