Plessy v. Ferguson
Issued on May 18, 1896, this Supreme Court decision upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races"...
Letter from Geo. Jones
In a letter to Secretary of State James G. Blaine on July 2, 1889, George F. Jones thanked Blaine for commissioning Frederick Douglass to be the Minister to Haiti.
March on Washington
Civil rights leaders Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (front row, second from left), A. Philip Randolph (front row, far right), and Roy Wilkins (front row, second...
Marchers in DC
This photograph shows participants at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, on August 28, 1963. The event brought hundreds of thousands of marchers to the...
Marching to a different drummer
Taylor, a drummer boy for the 78th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops, was photographed near the end of the Civil War. The 78th was organized in April 1864 and...
Married at 80
While many slave couples formed lasting bonds during their enslavement, slave marriages had no legal foundation or protection. The abolishment of slavery not only...
Marvin Sanders at war
During World War II, Fireman First Class Marvin Sanders of the U.S. Coast Guard served in the Pacific on an Army repair ship. He was one of more than 5,000 African...