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From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts
In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...
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Civil Rights During Reconstruction
Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former ... There were a lot of white Northerners in 1866 and 1867, who were not at all certain they wanted to see black people as ...
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The story of one of the most influential yet forgotten civil rights figures
While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...
‘Backbone of the American Dream’: How Rosenwald Schools shaped the civil rights movement
Photographer Andrew Feiler documented the last remaining Rosenwald Schools built to educate Black children during segregation ...