Extralegal killings as a response to crimes or as an expression of hatred regularly occurred during the Jim Crow era of the late 1800s to mid-1900s. Only one documented lynching occurred in Cape ...

Born in 1889 to former slaves, Webster was part of the first free generation of African Americans in the U.S. She earned an ...

In Jharkhand, deep-rooted gender biases, high violent crime rates, and child marriage practices are keeping women from ...

The sun wasn’t up yet when a dozen people began to gather on Wednesday at an all-Black cemetery in this South Texas border ...

In honor of Women's History Month, here are locations people can visit to celebrate and learn about influential women from US ...

Dixon said Sundown towns emerged in the late 1800s after the end of the Civil ... Black community and force them out, mainly through lynchings and arson. “It’s representative of a power ...

Though the Emancipation Proclamation made slavery illegal in 1863, segregation took root in the late 1800s and survived ... in 1909 in the midst of all these lynchings,” Lehman said.

And most marveled that those who traveled this route to freedom in the 1800s had none of these devices ... by Texas Rangers in 1915, and several lynchings and periods of sustained lynching against ...

It is not surprising that the United States that has yet to confront its history of ethnic cleansing of Native Americans and horrific legacy of enslaving and lynching Black Americans would be ...

This is our history,' Jalane Schmidt, professor of religious studies at UVA and member of the Historic Resource Committee ...