Freedman Bayley Wyatt advocates for freedpeople's rights to their land at a public meeting.
Freedman Bayley Wyatt advocates for freedpeople's rights to their land at a public meeting.
J. L. Edmonds, an African American schoolteacher, gave this account of the murder and intimidation before the 1875 election in Clay County, Mississippi.
Learn about the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers’ strike and Martin Luther King Jr.'s role in the strike and negotiations.
Learn about how Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America (1835), viewed democracy, freedom, and religion.