It is one of thousands of such heart-rending pleas that appeared in papers across the country, starting even before slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War and continuing as late as the ...

Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...

To celebrate Black History Month, let’s look back at the important role Detroit had in the Underground Railroad in the 1800s.

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the constitution on a ...

After stumbling upon her rich family history, the Fort Worth woman made it her mission to save a historic freedom colony in ...