By centering “freedom” in her campaign ... This legacy partly drives an attitudinal divide between Black and white Christians ...

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...

Aimed at increasing Black voter registration in Mississippi, the Freedom Summer workers included Black Mississippians and hundreds of out-of-state, predominately white volunteers. Though the SNCC ...

“It was a cry for freedom,” Smith said in a 2016 interview ... but in support of “all the working-class people — black and white — in Harlem who had to struggle and work with their ...

In his posthumously published autobiography, Carmichael spoke about the significance of the Freedom Rides: "CORE would be sending an integrated team-black and white together-from the nation's ...

Afterwards, they would be given what were known as "freedom dues," which usually included a piece of land and supplies, including a gun. Black-skinned or white-skinned, they became free.

Weaving together thousands of archival fragments, this study explores a shared Black Atlantic world where the meanings of slavery and freedom were fiercely contested and claimed. It recreates the ...