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The Harlem Renaissance
The New Negro Movement
From the Harlem Renaissance came the creation of great literature by black writers. Take a look at this important time.
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The Freedom Summer Project
Today, voting and registering to vote are done with ease. This, of course, was not always the case for southern blacks. Disenfranchisement was rampant, and the volunteers of Freedom Summer set out to bring national attention to the problem.
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The Boston Massacre
Thursday July 3, 2008
American independence was not won without casualties. Escaped slave Crispus Attucks was the first killed in the American Revolution. In what later would be called the Boston Massacre, Attucks, along with four other colonists, was killed by gunfire from irritated British soldiers. Find out what happened on that fateful day.
A Look Back at Minstrelsy
Tuesday July 1, 2008
During the 19th century, it became a popular pastime to spend an evening at a minstrel theater. While it was entertainment, the main attraction for white audiences was that it was a declaration of white superiority.
Image from Thomas D. Rice's sheet music cover "Sich a Getting Up Stairs."
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