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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Betty Ford: A Very Special Lady
In the fall of 1976 “Keep Betty’s husband in the White House” campaign buttons erupted all over the country—a tribute...
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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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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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African Americans and the White House
TEACHER'S TEXT:The perseverance of African Americans through the indignities of slavery and segregation is among the most tragic and...
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Tayloe House
Five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents. According to the records of the District of Columbia that is the...
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Self-emancipation in Lafayette Park
In 1810 an enslaved woman named Alethia Browning Tanner purchased her freedom with $1400 she had earned selling vegetables in the area...
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Daniel Webster's House
Before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Building was built during 1922-25, a simple three-and-a-half story brick home stood in...
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Truman, A. Philip Randolph and the Desegregation of the Armed Forces
Though A. Philip Randolph had won a significant victory when he persuaded Franklin Roosevelt to desegregate defense industries, the armed...
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712 Jackson Place
Many people know the sensational story of Congressman Daniel Sickles who shot his wife's lover in broad daylight in 1859 on...
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JFK, A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington
In the spring of 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was in the midst of a campaign to force the desegregation...
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FDR, A. Philip Randolph and the Desegregation of the Defense Industries
Since September 1939, war had been raging in Europe. Hitler’s armies had virtually seized the mainland, so that Great...