Frederick Douglass

Born today in 1868, W.E.B. Du Bois remains an icon of black and radical history in the US...On 28th August 1963, about 250,000 Americans took part in March on Washington.It was one of the great popular agitations of US history.

The story of the first all-black infantry regiment in the American Civil War, founded on this day in 1863...

More than 200,000 African Americans served in the Union military during the Civil War. Almost 40,000 gave their lives fighting for abolition.

The story of Crispus Attucks, the escaped slave who became the first person to die for American independence...

The first person to die for American independence was a mixed-race sailor and escaped slave called Crispus Attucks.