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Learn about the movement to end gun violence launched by Parkland students after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Learn how Bacon’s Rebellion became a turning point for the way the laws of colonial Virginia distinguished people of different races.

Former slave Jourdon Anderson responds, with a hint of sarcasm, to a request from his former master to return to work for him.

The Hamburg massacre occurred on July 4, 1876, in South Carolina. The Republican governor raised a state militia to stem the spreading violence in the state. An all-black regiment of the militia, led by Dock Adams, was stationed in Hamburg, angering white paramilitary groups, known as the Red Shirts, in nearby towns. Hundreds of Red Shirts surrounded and eventually attacked the 84-member black militia regiment, killing seven. The following is testimony by Adams before a congressional committee describing what he witnessed while hiding near his house.

Investigate Eleanor Roosevelt’s role in bringing black singer Marian Anderson to perform in segregated Washington, D.C.