Black History - General History

This is called "the United States’ only homegrown literary genre."

Before serving in Congress, he freed himself, his crew, and their families from slavery by seizing a Confederate ship.

Founded in 1967, it is the largest independent black-owned press in the United States.

Whose 1829 pamphlet, “An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World..." inspired future, more famous abolitionists?

Editor of the magazine Negro Digest/Black World to champion Black cultural expression and publish emerging Black writers

A member of the John Brown raiders who aimed to seize the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry and incite a rebellion.

WWII veteran shot in his back by the KKK the day after he became the first Black person to cast a vote in Taylor, GA.

The inspiration for the title character in Uncle Tom's Cabin, he escaped enslavement by walking over 600 miles to Canada

A formerly enslaved man who rose to become an entrepreneur, and the first emancipated Black man to own a plantation.

This name was given to a group of politically motivated Black artists who emerged during the Black Power Movement.

In 2024, honored in a full military service, 83 years after he was killed by a military officer outside Fort Benning.

Recognized in 2024 as a one-star general in Maryland’s National Guard for her military service during the Civil War.

An award winner for the doc Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor, she, "Painted Taylor as more than the symbol she's become."

This expression was believed to have first been used by the blues singer Ramblin’ Thomas in the 1928 song “Sawmill Moan”

A federal government employee, they were arrested in Virginia in 1944 for not giving up their seat in an interstate bus.

American writer whose novel The Bondwoman's Narrative is the only known novel written by an enslaved woman.

Group of Black American sailors wrongfully convicted of mutiny after refusing to return to unsafe working conditions.