In the ensuing months and years, arguments by African Americans who visited Lincoln—and the president’s willingness to listen—would change the course of history. While many historians and ...

Shukrani Gray, head of access and opportunity at the library, has worked extensively with The HistoryMakers database, and she ...

Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those ... Cashman, Sean D. (1991). African Americans & the Quest for Civil Rights, 1900-1990. New York: New York University Press.

President Trump targets museums he said push divisive ideology. Activists and historians say he's trying to erase the ...

In 2016, former President Barack Obama opened the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

Leaders at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and others say their core mission of elevating Black ...

In addition to featuring the history of slavery, Reconstruction and Civil Rights, the permanent collection includes an exhibit of African American music from the arrival of the first Africans to ...

In addition to featuring the history of slavery, Reconstruction and Civil Rights, the permanent collection includes an exhibit of African American music from the arrival of the first Africans to ...