The Children They Tried to Erase: The Nazi Sterilisation of Afro-German Rhineland Children
In 1937, Nazi Germany launched a secret sterilisation programme targeting mixed-race children in the Rhineland. These were the children of German women and Black...
Mary and Emily Edmonson: The Teenage Sisters Who Escaped Slavery on the Pearl
Two teenage girls were locked in a slave jail in Alexandria, Virginia in April of 1848. They had just been dragged back to the...
The Clerk Who Became a Viscount – José Bernardino de Sá and the Ship...
The facts, then. On July 27, 1825, a brig called the Espadarte pulled into Rio de Janeiro’s harbour. Its name meant “Swordfish,” but its...
The 11-Year-Old Oil Millionaire – Sarah Rector’s Story
The facts, then. Sarah Rector was born in a two-room cabin near Twine, Oklahoma, on March 3, 1902. Her parents, Joseph and Rose Rector,...
The San Bushmen – The Tribesmen and Their 25-Year Land Fight
The San have lived in the Kalahari Desert for over 20,000 years. They are the oldest inhabitants of southern Africa. Their rock paintings, their...
The Pea Island Lifesaving Crew – The All-Black Lifesaving Crew Who Defied the Sea...
The facts, then. On October 11, 1896, a hurricane was battering the North Carolina coast. The three-masted schooner E.S. Newman had lost all its...
Stagecoach Mary: The Former Slave Who Drove the Mail Through Montana’s Worst Weather
In 1895, a 60 year old former slave named Mary Fields secured a contract to deliver US mail by stagecoach between Cascade, Montana, and...
The Champion They Wouldn’t Crown: Len Johnson and Britain’s Colour Bar
Leonard Benker Johnson was born on October 22, 1902, in Clayton, Manchester. His father was a merchant seaman from Sierra Leone. His mother was...
The First Memorial Day Was Created by Formerly Enslaved People. Then History Erased Them.
On May 1, 1865, just three weeks after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, an extraordinary event took place in Charleston, South...
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Nathan "Nearest" Green was born into slavery in Maryland around 1820. No one recorded his exact birth date. No one wrote down his parents'...
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The woman who was Aunt Jemima died in a pauper’s grave.
Let that sit for a moment. Nancy Green was born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, on March 4, 1834. The exact number of...
The First Memorial Day Was Created by Formerly Enslaved People. Then...
On May 1, 1865, just three weeks after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, an extraordinary event took place in Charleston, South...
