Frederick Douglass

The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818...

Living Quarters on the Ground Floor

White House staff who lived at the President’s House during the nineteenth century, including enslaved and free African Americans, us...

First Lady Hoover's Tea Party with Mrs. De Priest Creates a Stir

Oscar De Priest’s election to Congress as a Republican representative from Chicago in 1928 created an interesting political and social di...

The White House, Lafayette Square and African Americans

To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...