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 ...

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 ...

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

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