Frederick Douglass' Fourth of July Speech Frederick Douglass' Fourth of July oration is a very moving and eye-opening speech. In reading this and trying to build a picture of what this might have been like to see or watch is amazing. Also as I read this and I realized a lot of thing...

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is the epitome of oppression of the black race. It is the story of an educated black man who has been oppressed and dominated by whites all of his life. Within the covers of the book lie themes and episodes which support the idea that the white race is the supreme race...

Mary Ann Shadd Mary Ann Camberton Shadd was born into the loving arms of Abraham Doras Shadd and Harriet Parnell on October 9, 1823 in Wilmington, Delaware. She was the eldest of 13 children. Mary grew up a free black in a slave state. She saw many frightened escaped slaves, as her house was a...

A funny thing, though: The man who started the tradition in the 1920s didn't think it would last. He didn't want it to last. Some day, he thought, African Americans and their history would enter the American mainstream. A special day, week or month to tell their stories and study their past ...

A funny thing, though: The man who started the tradition in the 1920s didn't think it would last. He didn't want it to last. Some day, he thought, African Americans and their history would enter the American mainstream. A special day, week or month to tell their stories and study their past s...

A funny thing, though: The man who started the tradition in the 1920s didn't think it would last. He didn't want it to last. Some day, he thought, African Americans and their history would enter the American mainstream. A special day, week or month to tell their stories and study their past ...