Black Past features a 2011 article, written by Jonathan Bradley, providing an account of Frederick Douglass' organizing of the…
Note: This primary source is accompanied by a brief biography on Samuel Ringgold Ward.Black Past features an 1850 transcription of…
Note: This article appears at the top of the second column on page six. Some language may be offensive to readers. Chronicling…
Note: This article begins in the middle of the fifth paragraph on page one. Chronicling America provides an article from the…
The New York Public Library features a historical photo that shows two African American men in front of the Putnam House in…
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History provides a historical contract between White landowner Isham G. Bailey and Black…
The African American Intellectual History Society features an article, written by Karen Cook Bell and published on November 11,…
The National Archives features an article that was written by Miranda Booker Perry and published in the summer 2010 edition of…
BlackPast provides the text of the historical military orders that were issued by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on…
Zinn Project Education features a lesson activity created by Adam Sanchez that involves multiday role play based on the phrase,…
PBS provides a video from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross series, which explains the origins of the phrase “Forty…
The Washington Post features an article, written by DeNeen L. Brown and published on April 15, 2021, titled, "40 Acres and a Mule:…
PBS presents a modern article, written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., titled, "The Truth Behind '40 Acres and a Mule,'" which examines…
NPR features a podcast in which reporter Sarah McCammon discusses the origins, development, and eventual reversal of "Forty Acres…