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Fascinating Women: Nannie Helen Burroughs
Nannie Helen Burroughs was a woman ahead of her time. In a community split between the principles of Du Bois and the NAACP and Washington and Tuskeegee, as well as the ideological rifts between black...
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African-Americans in the Great War
When the United States entered the Great War 1917, it was viewed with relief by the war-weary Allied armies. After the passage of the Selective Service Act, America’s relatively small army was...
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Upstairs Downstairs in Gilded Age America
Millionaires of the Gilded Age looked to Europeans–or more specifically, the British–for cues on how to recreate the leisured life in America, copying them from the construction of country estates, to...
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Addie Hunton on the work of Black YMCA workers in WWI
Kathryn Magnolia Johnson (1878–1955), a high school teacher, worked for the NAACP as a field agent from 1913 to 1916, establishing branches in the Midwest and South. Addie Waites Hunton (1866–1943), a...
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Jazz in Jazz Age Britain
Jack Ross (Gary Carr) in Downton Abbey, and the Louis Lester Band (Louis Lester is played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) in Dancing on the Edge, both give us a peek at the infiltration of not just jazz music,...
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The Mid-Winter Assembly, Baltimore, 1912
Published in February 1912 issue of The Crisis; photograph by Addison Scurlock. Click to enlarge. In 1908, William H. Bishop, Jr. invariably identified as “belonging to one of the oldest families in...
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WWI Wednesday: Homecoming of the Harlem Hellfighters
Return of the 15th New York (369th Infantry) Shown swinging up Lenox Avenue, New York City, Where they Received a Royal Welcome. No band of heroes returning from war ever were accorded such a welcome...
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The Years America Ran Red: A History of Lynching in the United States
A Man Was Lynched Yesterday.Flag flying above Fifth Avenue, New York City, ca. 1938. Copyprint.NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division.Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-4734/LC-USZ62-33793...
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Shuffle Along: Sissle & Blake’s Broadway Hit
The cast of Shuffle Along (© The Broadway Collection) Tickets are available for George C. Wolfe’s re-imagining of this groundbreaking musical comedy, titled Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical...
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The Lady Journalist
At the turn of the century, women’s print culture exploded. Between increasing literacy and decreasing costs of printing, and the desire to circulate knowledge and ideas, the number of women entering...
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