History

Black History Month is an opportunity to reflect on the historical contributions of black people in the United States. Too often, however, this history...

The screening of a new documentary profiling a Southwest Georgia town infamous for lynching will help mark Black History Month at Georgia Institute of...

In the following excerpt from the first chapter of The Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation Before the...

Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp has been sued for suppressing minority votes after an Associated Press investigation revealed a month before November’s...

Week of September 12-18 September 12 1913—Track and field athletic legend Jesse Owens is born on this day in Oakville, Ala. Owens would achieve international fame when he won four gold medals at the 1936 summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. His feat helped undermine Adolph Hitler’s myth of Aryan or White superiority. 1977—One of […]

“Folks, there’s nothing left from the Linguistics division. We lost all the indigenous languages collection: the recordings since 1958, the chants in all the...

Dr. Derryn E. Moten, Alabama State University department of history and political science chair, will give a lecture about Crusader Without Violence: A Biography...

Week of August 29-September 4 August 29 1920—Jazz legend Charlie “Yardbird” Parker was born on this day in Kansas City, Mo. The saxophonist and composer was one of the leading and most influential figures of the Jazz Age. 1924—Dinah Washington is born in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Her powerful voice would enable her to become one of […]

CORINTH, Miss. (AP) — Eberlene King remembers her 15-year-old brother as he lay dying, after White teenagers cruised through their Black neighborhood in a pickup on Halloween night 1959 and shot him in the face. “His eyes … were hanging out,” King recalled. “His head was full of pellets.” William Roy Prather died the next […]

Week of August 15-21 August 15 1975—In another of those highly publicized “trials of the century,” which frequently grip national attention, 20-year-old Joan Little is found not guilty of murder after she stabbed a White jailer who had entered her cell in Beaufort County, N.C., to sexually assault her. The trial had been moved to […]