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Texas Drought Uncovers Slave Cemetery
The record dry summer in Texas has uncovered a large slave graveyard in Corsicana, Texas. Archaeologist Alan Skinner of AR Consultants has uncovered at least twenty graves of African Americans, dating...
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Rosa Parks Arrest Record
Rosa Parks’s Mug Shot Today, Smithsonian Magazine publishes the arrest record of Civil Rights figure Rosa Parks. Parks became a household name and pivotal figure in the Civil Rights movement when, on...
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Library of Congress Electronic Exhibit – African American Odyssey: A Quest...
The Woolworth sit-in, LOC In honor of Black History Month, the Library of Congress is hosting the electronic exhibit “African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship.” The exhibit displays more...
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Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, Teaching Civil Rights
Today marks the anniversary of the landmark case, Brown vs. Board of Education. On this day in 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that the segregation of races for education under the “separate but equal”...
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Library of Congress Online Exhibit – African American History Month
Carter G. Woodson, historian and founder of Black History Month in America; courtesy of Wikimedia Commons If your’e looking for resources for Black History Month, the Library of Congress has published...
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