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MiddleBlack Wall Street
The thriving Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a model of Black economic self-determination destroyed in 1921.
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History
All AgesJuneteenth
June 19, 1865: the day enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned of their freedom — two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Art
High SchoolHarlem Renaissance
A 1920s explosion of Black literature, music, art, and political thought centered in Harlem, New York.
HBCUs
High SchoolThe Divine Nine
The nine historically Black Greek-letter organizations of the National Pan-Hellenic Council.
HBCUs
All AgesHBCU Homecoming
A weeklong celebration of campus, culture, alumni, and Black tradition.
Art
High SchoolAfrofuturism
A cultural aesthetic blending African diaspora history with science fiction, technology, and liberation imagination.
African Diaspora
MiddleGullah Geechee Culture
The distinct culture and Creole language of African descendants in the Sea Islands of the U.S. Southeast.
History
MiddleThe Great Migration
The movement of roughly six million Black Americans out of the rural South between 1910 and 1970.
Politics
High SchoolRedlining Explained
A 20th-century federal policy that systematically denied mortgages and investment to Black neighborhoods.
Science & Innovation
MiddleBlack Inventors
From traffic signals to refrigerated trucks to laser cataract surgery — Black inventors shaped modern life.
History
MiddleTuskegee Airmen
The first Black military pilots in the U.S. Armed Forces, trained at Tuskegee Institute during WWII.
Sports
MiddleNegro Leagues
Professional baseball leagues for Black players from the late 19th century until MLB integration.
Faith & Community
High SchoolBlack Church History
An institution that has been spiritual home, school, hospital, and political base for Black America.
Music
All AgesGospel Music
Sacred music rooted in spirituals, the blues, and the Black church tradition.
Music
All AgesJazz
The original American art form, born in Black New Orleans communities.
Music
High SchoolHip-Hop and Politics
From Public Enemy to Kendrick Lamar, hip-hop has been a Black political journalism platform.
Politics
MiddleShirley Chisholm
The first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress and the first to seek a major party's presidential nomination.
Education
MiddleMary McLeod Bethune
Educator, advisor to presidents, and founder of what became Bethune-Cookman University.
Education
High SchoolCarter G. Woodson
Historian, founder of Black History Month, author of 'The Mis-Education of the Negro.'
Civil Rights
High SchoolIda B. Wells
Investigative journalist who documented lynching across the American South.
Civil Rights
High SchoolFrederick Douglass
Formerly enslaved abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
Civil Rights
MiddleHarriet Tubman
Underground Railroad conductor, Union Army scout, and lifelong liberator.
Civil Rights
High SchoolSojourner Truth
Abolitionist and women's rights orator, born Isabella Baumfree.
Science & Innovation
MiddleKatherine Johnson
NASA mathematician whose calculations sent astronauts to space and to the Moon.
Civil Rights
High SchoolBrown v. Board of Education
The 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
History
High SchoolReconstruction
The 1865–1877 era of rebuilding the South and expanding Black political power — and the violent backlash that followed.
Civil Rights
MiddleThe Civil Rights Movement
The mid-20th-century struggle to dismantle legal segregation and secure voting rights.
Music
All AgesBlues
The Mississippi Delta-born ancestor of jazz, rock, R&B, and hip-hop.
Business
MiddleBlack Entrepreneurship
A long tradition of building businesses, banks, and brands against systemic odds.
African Diaspora
MiddleAfrican Diaspora
The global communities formed by the dispersion of African peoples across centuries.