I learned about African American History by living in the time of integration. As children, we started out in an all black school and in the 4th grade, we ...

Growing up on a one of the sea islands of Charleston SC, every road and family seems a part of history. From Stono Rebellion to Robert Smalls to ‘Letter from ...

I lived through the Civil Rights struggles of the 50s, 60s and 70s. I'm 72, a white woman, and I remember being in an integrated high school, from which ...

I have heard that my great grandfather, William (Runna) Harvey, used to teach reading and writing to people in the Hickory Hill, Greenpond, SC community, when it was for ...

Growing up in the South (I was born in 1952), I was raised in a middle class home segregated from any contact with African Americans. I would hear adults talking ...

I grew up in a small town in South Carolina. From the pyramids to the United States…my people built it all. I have listened to stories from my mother, my ...

I grew up in Detroit in the 1960s, during the city’s industrial and musical heyday. My mother’s family migrated to Detroit from Virginia, a state that sounded like one big ...

My maternal grandmother's family started in America when an indentured servant, Peter Parsons of Virginia moved to MS with an enslaved woman, nameless from my knowledge. Along the journey a son ...

In this picture is me, my grandmother and my mother. Three generations of black women although it may not appear to be. My daughter is the fourth and wasn't photographed ...

Lost History Hunter Diane Blackmon-Bailey This story begins with my quest to trace my family ancestry. All my life I had asked questions of my father, but very little information was known. ...

Growing up, I learned very little about accomplishments in the Black community. What I saw was a mixed bag of entertainers on screen and television. Some positive others demeaning and ...

Greetings. I am Calvin Horton, I was born in  Enfield, NC, during the Jim Crow days. I am proud to be an offspring of slaves, and to know about my ...

I was very fortunate that I grew up in the 60s and early 70s when black history was a meaningful part of the classroom instruction. We had "Black History" reading ...

This is a pic of my grandmother my mom's mother Annie B. Patton Warrior at about 18 years old. She was born in 1900 in San Antonio, TX. Her grandmother ...

In middle school I had a Black American history teacher who would show the class slavery films every chance she could. We were at an all-black school. At community college ...