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But one unique story of Black migration and land dispossession is now being told. That's the story of the Kingdom of the ...
In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...
A new Civil War trail sign has been installed in Plymouth to honor African-American soldiers who served in the Civil War. The dedication ceremony, held on Satur ...
Quilts carried during the migration of millions of Black people from the South star at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Black soldiers in blue : African American troops in the Civil War era / edited by John David Smith Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...
The federal government revoked $460,000 in federal funding to a Berkeley, Calif., museum housing historic African-American quilts. The funds were to be used to conserve the quilts.
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is home to one of the world's largest collections of African-American quilts — some 3,000 of them. Bequeathed to the museum in 2019 by ...
The work of the African American quilters Laverne Brackens and Sherry Byrd, who continue the thread of the family tradition, will be on view at the Berkeley Art Museum.
WASHINGTON ‒ A coalition of civil rights leaders kicked off a weeklong campaign to rally around the national African American museum and push back against what it calls efforts by the Trump ...
Quilts carried during the migration of millions of Black people from the South star at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.