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Articles with keyword "African Americans"

Photo of Chad L. Williams

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Impertinent Questions with Chad L. Williams

By Meredith Hindley

African-American soldiers in WWI: A broadening experience for many.

Five Points intersection painted by George Catlin in 1827

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Impertinent Questions with Carla L. Peterson

By Meredith Hindley

On Manhattan's nineteenth-century African-American community

A mural from <em>The Negro in America's Wars</em> series, 1944, by Lew Davis

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A Century of Art

By Laura Wolff Scanlan

"Hearing the Century: Voices of Arizona's Arts Past and Present" features Arizona artists and history.

African-American jockey Jimmy Winkfield astride Alan-A-Dale.

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The Racing Life

By Maryjean Wall

Kentucky jockey Jimmy Winkfield fled to Russia to escape Jim Crow.

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Found in Translation

By Steve Moyer

About soldiers-turned-defendants, a novelist-turned-interpreter, and French-turned-English.

pantomime in Tayor’s home studio

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Taylor-Made History

By Corinne Zeman

Memphis preacher's message could be found in his photographs.

"Effects of Fugitive-Slave Law"

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When the Slave-Catcher Came to Town

By Daniel J. Sharfstein

Oberlin, Ohio, was an abolitionist stronghold, but not impermeable.

Lifeguard offers a swimming lesson, 1951, photograph by Teenie Harris

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Teenie Harris Image Collection

African-American news photographer “Teenie” Harris’s career at the Pittsburgh Courier spanned forty years, during which time he recorded daily life in Iron City’s many diverse neighborhoods.

Paul Austin

In Focus

Arkansas's Paul Austin

By Bernard Reed

Putting humanities tools into local hands.

Image of poster from Lincoln Centennial

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Lincoln’s Centennial

By Anna Maria Gillis

The year was marked by adulation.