Success crowned these efforts: the Brown decision in 1954, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act in 1965 helped bring about the demise of the entangling web of legislation that bound …

May 9, 2024 · During the American Revolution, African Americans played important roles on both the Patriot and Loyalist sides, serving as soldiers and spies. Each side offered African Americans …

The NAACP was pivotal in securing African American civil rights and today continues to address civil rights violations, such as police brutality and the disproportionate percentage of African American …

Nov 30, 2020 · We can look at the motives for both armies for enlisting black soldiers, which sometimes helped in the goal of achieving freedom for slaves, and sometimes did not. Looking at the American …

African Americans faced social, commercial, and legal discrimination. Theatres, hotels, and restaurants segregated them in inferior accommodations or refused to admit them at all.

While many of these challenges were successful, life did not necessarily improve for African Americans. Hostile whites fought these changes in any way they could, including by resorting to violence.

May 12, 2023 · Both social inequality and segregation have heavily contributed to the final way in which African Americans have been given a lack of opportunity in education, which is through economic …

Historian Yohuru Williams explains what you need to know to sound smart about the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North after the Civil War.

With the end of the Civil War in 1865, hundreds of thousands of African Americans newly freed from the yoke of slavery in the South began to dream of fuller participation in American society, including …

African-American history started with the forced transportation of Sub-Saharan Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. The European colonization of the Americas, and the …