“We Are the World” is a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album…
The Freedmen’s Bureau was established by an act of Congress on March 3, 1865, two months before Confederate General Robert Lee (1807-70) surrendered to the Union’s Ulysses Grant (1822-85) effectively ending the Civil War. Intended as a temporary agency to…
This day in 1869 the Senate passed the 15th Amendment , by a vote of 39 to 13. The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men only the right to vote by declaring that the “right of citizens…
Negro History Week, the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month. Other countries around the world, including Canada and…
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