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Happy Juneteenth! Read an Excerpt from Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America
Jun 19 2020
For Juneteenth—today's holiday commemorating Union army general Gordon Granger's reading of federal orders in Galveston, Texas on June 19th, 1865, proclaiming that Texan slaves were free (in light of the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation had declared all slaves free two years prior)— UC Press
Black History Makers & Risk Takers: Laborers
Feb 18 2020
In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a pioneering black intellectual and the son of former slaves, recognizing “the dearth of information on the accomplishments of blacks . . . founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, now called the Association for the Study of African American Li
Celebrating Joe William Trotter, Jr. at the Heinz History Center
Sep 23 2019
On Sept. 11 , 2019, the Smithsonian-affiliated Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, PA hosted Carnegie Mellon University professor Joe William Trotter, Jr. for a celebration of his new book Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America.