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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Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
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What the 4th of July meant to the enslaved African
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Anonymous African American lynching victim of 1925
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Convicts leased to harvest timber circa 1915, in Florida
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Robertson’s Jams and marmalade
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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), African American abolitionist, writer and statesman
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Unintended Consequences: Southern Drawl