1622 - Anthony Johnson: A Man in Control of His Own
Both African slaves and European indentured servants labored in Virginia in the 1620s. Indentured servants agreed to work for a planter...
1650s to Present - Society of Friends
Society of Friends, also called Friends Church, byname Quakers, Christian group that arose in mid-17th-century England, dedicated to...
1676 - Bacon's Rebellion - Where does "White People" come from? (Listen)
Learn: How bacon's rebellion played a historical role in the creation of “white” people in America America’s legal institution was based...
1820s - William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was an American journalistic crusader who helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the...
1840s - John Brown (militant abolitionist)
Perhaps more than any other American historical figure, the militant abolitionist John Brown embodies the idea that one man’s terrorist...
1920s to 1955 - Walter White
As a member of the NAACP, Walter White investigated lynchings and worked to end segregation. He was the organization's executive...
1920s to 1967 - Carl Van Vechten
n the summer of 1925, Carl Van Vechten, a New York hipster and literary gadabout, sent a letter to Gertrude Stein, whose friendship he...
1921 - We are proud to be 'rednecks'. It's time to reclaim that term
While the term divides us now, its history dates back to a time when mineworkers battled big coal – similar to teachers standing up for...
1951 - Josephine Baker boycott's the Manhattan Club.
Josephine Baker arrived with friends in tow at Manhattan’s Stork Club on October 16, 1951, craving shrimp cocktail and steak. It was one...
1965 - Norman Rockwell’s “Southern Justice” and the Murder of the Mississippi Civil Rights Workers
Fifty years ago today, three young men working to register blacks to vote as part of the Freedom Summer in Mississippi were brutally...