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Transitioning from job to job as a teenager, Oscar Micheaux was able to write a story that was inspired by his experience on a...

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Opportunities for freed black children to further their educational journey after high school were limited. As a direct response to minimal options, black people...

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Fresh off an oil-boom, the black residents of Greenwood, Okla. built a booming community known as The Negro Wall Street. But in May of...

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Lynching was an action used to terrorize the black community for generations, with the first known public display of this injustice taking place in...

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In 1965, one of the last traceable remnants of Jim Crow ideology were thought to be taken off the books with the passage of...

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Fisk University was founded in Nashville, Tenn. in 1866. As an institution for African-American students, their first years of inception were pivotal. In 1871,...

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With a Jim Crow south alive and well, many black Americans migrated north. This migration resulted in the formation of a creative urban hub...

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In February 1951, a young African-American woman by the name of Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cervical cancer. Unbeknownst to...

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