The American Civil War (1861-1865) was fought between the Union and the Confederacy within the United States. While there were various causes for the battle between the North and South, a critical point of contention was the South's desire to keep slavery. Frederick Douglass, a slave who became an abolitionist, frequently discussed the abolition of slavery with President Abraham Lincoln.

The Civil Rights Movement was a social movement that ran from the mid-1950s through around 1968. This movement advocated for the abolition of racial segregation and discrimination against African-Americans in the United States. Small acts of resistance by regular folks laid the groundwork for this revolution.

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was a social reformer, orator, and writer of African descent. He escaped slavery, trained himself to read and write, and rose to national prominence as a leader of the abolitionist movement, which was dedicated to the elimination of slavery.

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was a civil rights activist and political counselor. W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was a civil rights activist, public intellectual, sociologist, and educator in addition to being a civil rights campaigner. Washington and Du Bois wrote about their remedies to African Americans' social and economic problems.

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858-1964), was an American author, educator, notable scholar, and one of the first black women to acquire a doctorate in US history.

Ida Bell Wells (1862-1931) was an African-American journalist, editor, suffragist, sociologist, and Civil Rights Movement pioneer.

The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African-American fighter and bomber pilots, as well as their support crew, who served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Despite racial discrimination, their operations were among the most successful in American military history.

Louis Armstrong was an African American trumpeter, composer, singer, and actor who lived from 1901 to 1971. Armstrong's career lasted five decades, and he is still remembered today.

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that occurred throughout the 1920s in Harlem, New York City. A "renaissance" is a time when there is a lot of artistic and intellectual activity.

Charles R. Drew was an African American doctor, surgeon, medical researcher, and professor who lived from 1904 until 1950. Drew's medical achievements saved thousands of lives in World War II Allied forces.

Sarah Hopkins Bradford released Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, an authorized biography, in 1869. Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist who assisted slaves in escaping via the Underground Railroad. She frequently collaborated with Frederick Douglass, a public speaker, and novelist who was also an abolitionist..

Emmett Louis Till (1941-1955) was an African American fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago who was killed in Mississippi in 1955. More than 4,000 Black Americans were lynched by white mobs between 1877 and 1950. The murder of Emmett Till, on the other hand, stood out amid a long history of racist violence.

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