After 1750 increasing numbers of African Americans found their way to freedom -- either by buying themselves, running away, or being emancipated by their masters. These free blacks emerged as ...

Explore the revolutionary act of saving money and building generational wealth by African American ancestors. Discover their stories of freedom and resistance.

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (WSAV) — Freedom Day celebrates the history and legacy of Harriet Tubman and the African American community’s contribution to labor and development of historic ...

Many thousands of African Americans who aided the British lost their freedom anyway. Many of them ended up in slavery in the Caribbean. Others, when they attempted to leave with the British ...

African-American life had been transformed ... reluctantly but inexorably, to fairness and freedom. Yet this story has had less direct relevance for black immigrants. Although new arrivals ...

Religious freedom is more than the ‘freedom to ... from opening their doors and providing their services to African Americans. These laws enforced widespread discrimination and denied African ...

Back in the 1960s, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) developed Freedom Schools to teach reading, writing, math, civics and history to African Americans whose self-determination ...

The National Park Service (NPS) has removed a reference to abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its webpage dedicated to the ...

Waterloo schools, a minority-majority district, declined to participate in the African American Read-In. The 1619 Freedom School is hosting its own instead.