Descendants of African-Americans who began their lives in America as kidnapped slaves were then deprived of civil rights by "Jim Crow" laws. Leaders inspired others to overcome racial prejudice and legal obstacles. These stories highlight the ups and downs of black history.
The three-part trading system consists of European goods, African slave labor, and British colony resources, such as coffee and tobacco.
Tuskegee Institute is a flight school that graduates African American pilots.
Tice, a runaway slave, swims across the Ohio River which separates a free state and a slave state. When he disappears, it's like he is traveling on a...
An explanation of the Underground Railroad and how Harriet found it.
An all-white male jury convicts and sentences Celia to hang for first-degree murder.
Celia cannot tell her side of the story in her own trial because slaves cannot testify.
Runaway slaves need to be creative to avoid capture.
William Still, a freeborn black man and Father of the Underground Railroad, shares accounts of slaves who take the passage to freedom.
The deaths of one black and two white freedom fighters goaded Congress into passing the first voting rights legislation since Reconstruction.
Abandoned at birth Antwone Fisher lives in foster care as a ward of the state of Ohio.
"Freedom Summer" results in terrible violence yet the civil-rights workers keep at their task of registering black voters.
Scholars disagree about the reliability of slave memoirs and oral histories.
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