In areas of society such as housing, education and employment, the Jim Crow laws meant that African Americans experienced significantly worse conditions than white people. For example, in ...

An exhibition at New York’s Scandinavia House features art and music by black Americans who moved to northern Europe in ...

Reasons for the growth of the KKK in the early 1920s The activities of the KKK Reasons for the decline of the KKK In 1920, there were 12 million black Americans living in the USA with 75 per cent ...

With few exceptions, the historical footprints of African Americans who trod Clark County in the early days are challenging to track. Through the Corps of Discovery’s journals, we know about York. He’ ...

African Americans were not allowed to own or sell ... African Americans were allowed in the audience at their shows. In early 1960, President of the Las Vegas chapter of the NAACP, Dr.

early African American music would become a unifying and driving force among America's slaves. Spirituals, as many of these songs came to be called, expressed faith in God, helped make work more ...

He grew up in the South and traveled the United States extensively before settling in Boston, where he ran a used clothing shop and became an early antiracist activist, selling subscriptions to ...