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Despite continued exclusionary practices, Black Americans slowly but surely made their way into the workforce after the Civil War. With continued persistence and perseverance,...

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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination not only further ignited the civil rights movement, but it also inspired students in the collegiate setting...

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While the Civil Rights Movement continued to spread across the US and the feminist movement evolved, one group felt neither movement really addressed their...

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After the shooting at former President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally, NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss reflects on past presidential assassination attempts and how Americans...

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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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President Lyndon B. Johnson made it clear that a shift was greatly needed in America. No longer could we preach about a land of...

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