Rediscovering Black History: The blog of the Black History Guide, shares records relating to the African American experience at the National Archives
AOTUS:Celebrating Black History Month: Hidden Gems
AOTUS:Celebrating Black History Month
Annotations:Digitizing Boston’s Desegregation Records for the Classroom
Education Updates:Kidnapping of Free People of Color
Education Updates:We Shall Overcome: Anxiety and Optimism for the March on Washington
Education Updates:
Education Updates: Striking Down “Freedom of Choice” Plans for School Desegregation: Green v. New Kent County
Ford in Focus:Recognition of Black History Month
Forward with Roosevelt:Eleanor Roosevelt’s Battle to End Lynching
FDR Library Tumblr:1941–Plans for a March on Washington
Hoover Heads:Mary Bethune: Adviser to PresidentsHoover Heads:Desegregating the Commerce Department
JFK Library Archives:Making the March on Washington, August 28, 1963
JFK Library Archives:“Understand Our Urgency:” Oral Histories by Black Americans
National Archives News:Records Help Honor Legacy of Trailblazing Black Physician
National Archives News:Philadelphia 15 Exonerated Thanks to NARA Personnel Records Research
National Archives News:In Memoriam: Harry Belafonte (1927–2023)
National Archives News:Bisa Butler Quilts Harlem Hellfighters into History
National Archives News:In Memoriam: Nichelle Nichols (1932–2022)
National Archives News:Noted Historian Discusses Juneteenth’s Place in American History
National Archives News:Featured Document: Remembering the Tulsa Race Massacre
National Archives News:National Archives Unveils Photos of Buffalo Soldiers at West Point
National Archives News:Pandemic Telework Project Sparks Increase in Black History Records Accessibility
National Archives News:National Archives Safeguards Original ‘Juneteenth’ General Order
National Archives News:Confederate Slave Payrolls Shed Light on Lives of 19th-Century African American Families
National Archives News:Journalist Shares Stories Behind Civil Rights Cold Cases
NDC Blog:Lionel Hampton, Jazz Legend and President’s “Ambassador of Goodwill”
Pieces of History:Celebrating African Artists at the National Archives
Pieces of History:Facial Hair Friday: Carlton Chapmanand the Ultimate Sacrifice
Pieces of History:Historic Staff Spotlight: Lucille Joppy
Pieces of History:Dr. Charles Drew: A Pioneer in Blood Transfusions
Pieces of History:Historic Staff Spotlight: Josef C. James
Pieces of History:Historic Staff Spotlight: Robert L. Clarke
Pieces of History:Marian Anderson’s 1939 Easter Concert
Pieces of History:Historic Staff Spotlight: Lillian Grandy
Pieces of History:Facial Hair Friday: Robert Smalls
Pieces of History:LGBTQ+ History Month: Barbara Jordan
Pieces of History:James Baldwin and Freedom Summer
Pieces of History:Facial Hair Friday: The Honorable Thurgood Marshall
Pieces of History:The Fight for the Right to Marry: The Loving v. Virginia Case
Pieces of History:We Remember Civil Rights Legend John Lewis
Pieces ofHistory:The Tulsa Massacre
Pieces of History:New York City U.S. Custom House Employee: Matthew Henson
Pieces of History:Mae Jemison: First Black Woman in Space
Pieces of History:The Gridlock of Racial Segregation: When the Light Turns from Brown to Green
Pieces of History:19th Amendment at 100: Mary Church Terrell
Pieces of History:Victory at Home and Abroad: Combating Segregation in the Armed Forces
Pieces of History:Marjorie S. Joyner: More than an Inventor
Pieces of History:The Maker of Pilots: Aviator and Civil Rights Activist Willa Beatrice Brown
Pieces of History:“Forgotten Soldier” at American Revolution Museum at Yorktown
Pieces of History:The “Roots” of Genealogy at the National Archives
Pieces of History:Facial Hair Friday: George Washington Carver’s Nuts for Peanuts!
Pieces of History:Facial Hair Friday: Joseph Rainey the First African American in the House
Pieces of History: LBJ and MLK
Pieces of History:Bienvenue à Port-au-Prince, Monsieur Douglass
Pieces of History:His Was “Service Honest and Faithful, Character Excellent”
Pieces of History:Black History Month: The 54th Massachusetts
Pieces of History:Facial HairFriday: In Honor of MLK
Pieces of History:Honoring Justice Thurgood Marshall: The Right Man and the Right Place
Pieces of History: The Drawings of Charles Alston
Pieces of History:African American History at the NationalArchives
Pieces of History:An Act to Establish the NMAAHC
Pieces of History:Celebrating the Life of an Ancestor Who Was a “12 Years a Slave”
Pieces of History:
Preservation at the National Archives Tumblr:MLK's Selective Service System Draft Card
Today'sDocument:Martin Luther King Jr.'s Portrait
Text Message:Records Related to African American History in the National Register of Historic Places
Text Message:Remembering Jonestown 40 Years Later
Text Message:Keyes v. School District Number One, Denver, Colorado: Eliminating the “Root and Branch” of School Segregation
Text Message: War of Words: Race-Based Propaganda During World War II
Text Message:The Department of State Reports on the George Foreman-Muhammad Ali Fight (‘The Rumble in the Jungle’) 1974
Text Message:Firefly Project and the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (“Smoke Jumpers”)
Text Message:NAACP vs the Washington DC Police Department
Text Message:African Americans and the American War for Independence
Unwritten Record:Unnoticed: African Americans in Union Army Camps During the Civil War
Unwritten Record:African American Women in the Military During WWII
Unwritten Record:Now Showing: George Washington Carver on Kodachrome
Unwritten Record:Stock Footage Spotlight: Historically Black Colleges and Universities in WWII
Unwritten Record:Cartographic Records Relating to African American History
Unwritten Record:60 Years On: The Little RockNine
Unwritten Record:A Brief Look at African American Soldiers in the GreatWar
Unwritten Record:Spotlight: Celebrating Black History Month
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Unwritten Record:Dr. Paul Owen: The First PHSOptometrist
Unwritten Record:MakingThe March
