Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, were part of the defending forces of Washington, D.C. Photo shows two rows of African Americans holding rifles at Fort Lincoln in 1864.
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The Nation of Islam
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I’m not a nigger, I’m a man, but if you think I’m a nigger, it means you need it.
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W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington
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students at Roger Williams University in Nashville, Tennessee, ca. 1899
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Denmark Vesey
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Southern jails made money leasing convicts for forced labor in the Jim Crow South
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Going from House Pets to Wretched