Elizabeth Keckley
Born into slavery in 1818, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (also spelled Keckly) learned to sew from her mother and this skill would...
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Dolley Madison's House
Did you know that after her husband's death, First Lady Dolley Madison was so poor that she had to accept...
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Charlotte Dupuy
Few people know the story of a brave woman named Charlotte Dupuy who was enslaved by Secretary of State Henry...
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Pathbreakers: Oscar Stanton DePriest and Jessie L. Williams DePriest
Shelley Stokes-Hammond prepared these biographical sketches as part of a project for a graduate documentation course at Goucher College where...
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U.S. Presidential Visits to Domestic Mosques
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U.S. Presidential Visits to Domestic Mosques
June 28, 1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower - Islamic Center of Washington President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Remarks at Ceremonies Opening the Islamic...
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President Truman and Civil Rights
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball on April 15, 1947 signaling a historic step forward in the movement...
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African Americans and the White House
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Q&A: Did slaves build the White House?
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1862 Emancipation Petitions
The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln “Civil War Washington” website has posted the 1862 Eman...
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E. Frederick Morrow at the White House
E. Frederic Morrow was the first African American to serve in an executive position on a president’s staff at th...
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Frederick Douglass
The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818...