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8 resources
Article
Free Black People in Colonial Virginia
Encyclopedia Virginia
How a small free-Black community lived, worked, and owned land in 17th-century Virginia.
Article· Primary
Marian Anderson and the Lincoln Memorial concert
Smithsonian
The 1939 concert and the DAR's refusal of Constitution Hall.
Article
NEH — The 1921 Tulsa Massacre
National Endowment for the Humanities
Scholarly overview of the destruction of Greenwood.
Article· Primary
NMAAHC — How George Floyd's death became a catalyst
Smithsonian NMAAHC
The museum's account of 2020 and the movement that followed.
Article
San Miguel de Gualdape slave rebellion, 1526
BlackPast
The first documented Africans — and first slave rebellion — in what is now the US.
Article· 2014
The Case for Reparations
Ta-Nehisi Coates
A landmark essay connecting slavery, redlining, and the wealth gap.
Article· 2019
Virginia's First Africans
Encyclopedia Virginia
Scholarship on the 1619 Point Comfort landing and its contested history.
Article
William Tucker (1624– )
BlackPast
The first documented child of African descent born in the English colonies.