World War II — The Double V Campaign
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The "double war" of World War II -- segregated units fought fascism abroad and discrimination at home.
Posted in: African American History, World War II
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Posted by: Neely Tucker
The "double war" of World War II -- segregated units fought fascism abroad and discrimination at home.
Posted in: African American History, World War II
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Amara Alexander is the 2019-20 Einstein Fellow at the Library of Congress. Here, she writes about her research at the Library.
Posted in: African American History, Education, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Carla D. Hayden
A remembrance of Rep. John Lewis by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden upon the congressman's death on July 17, 2020.
Posted in: African American History, Civil Rights, Congress, Washington DC
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Some of the origins of Juneteenth can be traced to the front porch of a plantation house in Limestone County, Texas, where a slaveowner told his 150 enslaved workers that they were free on June 19, 1865.
Posted in: African American History, Civil War, Today in History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
How would freed slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass have sounded while delivering one of his classic speeches? A speech on John Brown offers a few clues.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, African American History, Civil War, Manuscripts, Newspapers, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's collections document the historic 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest protests for social justice in national history, in our Changemakers series.
Posted in: African American History, Exhibitions, Washington DC
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Rosa Parks launched one of the most influential protests in American history, chronicled at the Library and featured in the exhibit, "Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words." You can explore it online, even while the Library is closed due to COVID-19. The Parks papers and exhibit are part of the Library's role in preserving and presenting the lives of revolutionary American changemakers.
Posted in: African American History, Civil Rights, Exhibitions
Posted by: Neely Tucker
In a National Book Festival Presents conversation that premieres tonight (June 5), Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Lonnie Bunch discuss the national protests that have roiled the nation after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
Posted in: African American History, Civil Rights, Crime and Punishment, National Book Festival, News
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library has recently digitized Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks reading her poems, including the iconic "We Real Cool," at two events 24 years apart as part of National Poetry Month. The recordings are part of the 50 poems added each year to Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
Posted in: African American History, New Online, Poetry, Writers