Wikimedia Commons/TheCuriousGnome The Amistad Rebellion and Its Extraordinary Trial In 1839, 53 Africans broke their chains aboard a slave ship and fought back with cane knives. They killed their ...

Wikimedia Commons/Richmond Compiler The Creole Rebellion of 1841 The Creole was just another slave ship crossing the Atlantic in November 1841, carrying human cargo to Southern markets. Then Madison ...

Wikimedia Commons/South Bend news-times Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Chicago’s deadliest race riot started with a 17-year-old ...

Wikimedia Commons/James Akin Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson wrote that Black people were inferior while secretly having six children with his enslaved half-sister-in-law Sally ...

Wikimedia Commons/Epolk The incredible tale of Solomon Northup Solomon Northup had what most free Black men in 1808 New York could barely imagine. His father Mintus had been enslaved to Captain Henry ...

Wikimedia Commons/Nyttend Nat Turner’s Rebellion Nat Turner could read, preach, and see visions that convinced him he was a prophet. In August 1831, his divine calling led to the deadliest slave ...

Wikimedia Commons/Will Counts The Little Rock Nine A carpool mix-up left Elizabeth Eckford walking alone through a screaming crowd of white protesters in 1957. She was just trying to get to her first ...

Wikimedia Commons/TSHA ~ in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107. Chris Kyle, the legendary American Sniper Chris Kyle became America’s deadliest sniper with 160 confirmed kills across four ...

Wikimedia Commons/Mav Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, champion of Joshua Tree National Park Plant thieves were gutting California’s desert in the 1920s. Collectors loaded trucks with Joshua trees and rare ...

Wikimedia Commons/Lizarra1 Claudette Colvin Before Rosa Parks became the face of bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was just a ...

Wikimedia Commons/Ricethin Gutzon Borglum’s KKK connections The sculptor of Mount Rushmore learned his craft carving ...

Wikimedia Commons/Wabbuh The Republican Party’s anti-slavery roots One schoolhouse meeting in 1854 changed American history ...