In the early part of the 20th century, entire church congregations from Americus, Ga., moved to Hartford during the great black migration...
George Washington famously acknowledge the Boston Irish on March 17, 1776, when he ordered new code words to pass through Continental Army...
Constance Baker Motley encountered overt racism for the first time when she left her home in New Haven to attend Fisk College...
Many viewed the death of Bobby Kennedy in 1968 as the loss of the last great leader. Assassins’ bullets had taken the...
Indian women faced double discrimination since the first European colonists arrived in the Americas. Many fought back against the prejudice that destroyed...
On Feb. 28, 1638, the slave trade probably began in New England when a ship arrived in Massachusetts Bay from the West...