Black Protest - AAIHS

Black Women, Sanderson Farms, and the Strike for Better Conditions

African American Women in Industry, 1939-1945 (New York Public Library) “Try Miss Goldy Chickens, and try a little

In July 1971, over six hundred domestic workers from thirty different cities gathered together in Washington D.C. at the first

Stop referring to what happened in Los Angeles from August 11- 16, 1965 as the Watts Riot. Call the events

In 1946, Joe Louis, the heavyweight champion of the world, stood in front of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study