In 1861, General Robert E. Lee wrote a letter to his cousin. General Lee is explaining that he has resigned from the U.S. Army to fight for the Confed...

Happy National Poetry Month from My Account of It #1 The Negro Speaks Of Rivers read by Quincy Jones for the album Poems by Langston Hughes #2 Kitchen...

A first-person account of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. This account was written by James Suydam Knox. Listen.

Phillis Wheatley published her first collection of poems in 1773. It was the first book published by an African American.

Bessie Coleman worked hard to be successful at something she loved, flying. Although instructors in the United States refused to teach her how to oper...

Elizabeth Keckley wrote Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (1868) to call attention to the struggles newly...

This advertisement is against Women's Suffrage. It ran in the Tulsa Daily World on Sunday, November 3, 1918. Listen.

Mary Church was born on September 26, 1863 in Memphis, Tennessee. Her father, a self-educated former slave, became a millionaire investing in real est...

Dr. Halle Tanner Dillion Johnson was the first woman and the first black woman to practice medicine in Alabama. She was licensed in 1891. Dr. Johnson ...