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Barack Obama: 2008 election night rally
Inside the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center (formerly the DuSable Museum of African American History)
Crispus Attucks
Two reenactors and an illustration of a Black soldier from the First Rhode Island Regiment stand against a background of historical handwritten text.
How the Whitney Plantation teaches the history of slavery
The Confessions of Nat Turner Freedmen Henry Highland Garnet United States: extension of slavery Martin R. Delany
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George E.C. Hayes, left, Thurgood Marshall, center, and James M. Nabrit join hands as they pose outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., May 17, 1954. The three lawyers led the fight for abolition of segregation in public schools before the....
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A civil rights organization declares a 'state of emergency' in the U.S. • July 22, 2025, 12:24 PM ET (NPR)
This artist is transforming a Greyhound bus into a museum about Black American migration • July 18, 2025, 3:51 AM ET (CBC)
Trump’s ‘good English’ praise prompts eye rolls in Liberia, and some cheers • July 10, 2025, 8:19 AM ET (Globe and Mail)
Summer camp hopes to give young Black entrepreneurs pathway into industry • July 5, 2025, 2:22 AM ET (CBS)
Why Black unemployment just rose to its highest level since January 2022 • July 4, 2025, 6:32 AM ET (CNN)

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Also Known As Afro-American • Black American

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Barack Obama: 2008 election night rally
Crispus Attucks
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Freedmen
Henry Highland Garnet
United States: extension of slavery
Martin R. Delany
American Civil War diary
Hiram Rhoades Revels
Booker T. Washington
Inside the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center (formerly the DuSable Museum of African American History)
Two reenactors and an illustration of a Black soldier from the First Rhode Island Regiment stand against a background of historical handwritten text.
How the Whitney Plantation teaches the history of slavery
Learn about the Union regiments and commanders Michigan contributed largely to the Western front of the American Civil War
Each section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, explained
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Key People

Abraham Lincoln portrait
Abraham Lincoln
president of United States
Frederick O’Neal
American actor
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American religious leader and civil-rights activist
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
president of United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
president of United States
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
American author
John Calhoun
John C. Calhoun
vice president of United States
Jackie Wilson, 1950s.
Jackie Wilson
American singer
Stanley Crouch
American journalist and critic
Septima Poinsette Clark
Septima Poinsette Clark
American educator and civil rights advocate
John Marshall Harlan
John Marshall Harlan
United States jurist [1833-1911]
A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph
American civil-rights activist
Salmon Portland Chase
Salmon P. Chase
chief justice of United States
Benjamin F. Butler
Benjamin F. Butler
United States politician and military officer
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges
American civil rights activist
Sophia B. Packard
American educator
Myrtilla Miner
American educator
Benton, Thomas Hart
Thomas Hart Benton
American writer and politician
Benjamin F. Wade
Benjamin F. Wade
American politician
Brown, Hallie Quinn
Hallie Quinn Brown
American educator

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George E.C. Hayes, left, Thurgood Marshall, center, and James M. Nabrit join hands as they pose outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., May 17, 1954. The three lawyers led the fight for abolition of segregation in public schools before the....
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