Frances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional ...
and the Senate Black Legislative Staff Caucus, in advocating for a congressional workforce that reflects the diversity of the American people within the U.S. House of Representatives and work to ...
Rep. Ayanna Pressley will reintroduce H.R. 40, federal legislation to study reparations for slavery, on Wednesday as the ...
a white mob attacks blacks and Radical Republicans attending a black suffrage convention, killing 40 people. August 28: "The swing around the circle." With Congress demanding that Southern ...
Clarke (D-NY) led the panel of lawmakers -- mostly from the Congressional Black Caucus ... determination and economic independence for Black people at a time when Jim Crow laws oppressed ...