Editor’s note: For Women’s History Month, The Root is spotlighting less famous figures from the African American…
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Who was America’s first successful stage magician?
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I am working on a research project for the Spartanburg County Historical Association. The directors at Walnut Grove…
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My pilgrimage to Selma, Ala., began at 2:30 Saturday morning.
Who was the first person to ask for reparations for slavery?
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The images are iconic: the horses, the tear gas, the billy clubs and bloodied bodies.
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On Saturday, thousands—including President Barack Obama—will descend on the tiny town of Selma, Ala., to mark the…
My Colonial ancestor was a woman named Sarah Summers, who I believe was from England and sentenced to serve seven…
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Editor’s note: For Women’s History Month, The Root is spotlighting less famous figures from the African American…
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Don’t even bother asking Reggie Love about that infamous card game that he and President Barack Obama reportedly…
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Who was the first (and only) female buffalo soldier?
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A hundred years ago—on March 3, 1915, to be exact—as war consumed Europe, and the United States tried to steer clear…
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Editor’s note: During Black History Month, the focus is usually on historical figures who loomed larger than life,…
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In the late 1940s, a historian predicted that one day all of Mississippi’s schoolchildren, black and white, would…
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Editor’s note: During Black History Month, the focus is usually on historical figures who loomed larger than life,…
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