During Woodrow Wilson’s 1912 presidential campaign, he promised African Americans advancement. He stated, “Should I become President of the United States, [Negroes] [sic] may count …
The Walsh Committee was created to review industrial relations and scrutinize US labor laws. The commission studied work conditions throughout the industrial United States between …
“The surviving crew were detained overnight and forced to sign a pledge under the ‘Official Secrets Act’, promising to keep secret forever, the actual events …
The Chinese Revolution of 1911, also called Xinhai Revolution (辛亥革命) after the year of the Chinese calendar in which it occurred, was an uprising that …
With the race riots of Springfield, IL (President Lincoln’s hometown) as a catalyst, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded six …
We have all heard of the term ‘Melting Pot’, it means the mixing of different races and cultures into one monolithic group forming the ‘New …
The riot began the evening of Friday, Aug. 14, 1908, when a white crowd gathered outside the Sangamon County Jail, apparently intending to lynch two …
The mother of all insider trades was pulled off in 1815, when London financier Nathan Rothschild led British investors to believe that the Duke of …
When the black soldiers of the 25th Infantry moved into Fort Brown, Texas, they arrived in a place that had already had problems with the …
The Carnegie Institution established a laboratory complex at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island that stockpiled millions of index cards on ordinary Americans, as researchers …
