In mid-June 1919, a group of Navy Yard employees, all veterans of World War I, gathered during their lunch break and formed an all-Black unit of a newly established organization, the American Legion,…

In 1895, Kelly Miller, a prominent intellectual, author and faculty member at Howard University, convinced the university to add to its curriculum the new discipline of sociology. Sociologists, Miller…

"The history we were taught in school always came from a Eurocentric perspective. But the presence of blacks in American history is very significant…. And we have every right to protest, advocate and…

“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class―it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”

Marguerite Daisy Carr was only 13 years old in 1947 when she found herself at the center of a legal battle over equal education.

"If a race has no history, it has no worth-while tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated…"(Carter G. Woodson, 1926)

When the building that houses Cardozo High School was first constructed in 1914-1916, it was called Central High School and for the next thirty-five years was open to white students only. Then in 1950…

As assistant librarian at the Library of Congress, Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (1852-1925), created the authors and literature exhibit for W.E.B. Du Bois’s seminal exhibition on African Americans at…

Originally the headquarters of the Securities and Exchange Commission, this 1949 building at 425 2nd Street NW became home to the nation's first urban land grant school when Federal City College (FCC)…

For 40 years, the three-story building at 1900 15th Street NW housed B & D Barber Shop on the ground floor. The business was owned by Gardner LaClede Bishop (1909–1992), a leader in the mid-20th…