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Frederick Douglass: “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”
The Scourged Back: This slave named Gordon ran for 80 miles to join the Union Forces in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in March 1863. This famous photo of the welts on his badly "scourged back" was taken while he was being fitted for a uniform.
The Scourged Back: How Runaway Slave and Soldier Private Gordon Changed History
"Contrabands": During the Civil War, thousands of slaves escaped their owners in the South by getting to Union Army camps. Thus freed, many continued on to settle in the North.
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Traces of the Trade: The North’s Complicity in Slavery
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"Remembrance" is one of America's Black Holocaust Museum's four themes, which serve as pillars in our virtual museum.

In every gallery, we remember important historical events and people who have played a role in civil rights or otherwise impacted the lives of Black Americans and others in the African diaspora. Some of these are well-known, but most are not. The stories told in most of ABHvM's exhibits have been left out of our history books or been told incompletely.

You will also notice how this theme appears in some events and breaking news articles, especially as new history comes to light or society finally treats certain subjects with respect.

Frederick Douglass: “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”

July 4, 2013

On July 5, 1852, abolitionist and ex-slave Frederick Douglass gave this famously pointed speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He told his white audience, “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”

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Bernard Lafayette: An Unsung Veteran of the Voting Rights Struggle

July 7, 2013

Bernard Lafayette is one of the founding fathers of the Voting Rights Act. He was part of a small interracial army of men and women who presented their bodies as living sacrifices for the Act. Some lost their friends, their families, their minds — even their lives. But 50 years after their greatest triumph, their struggle is in danger of being lost.

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Service Seeks Reconciliation Over 1916 Lynching

July 28, 2013

Hundreds gathered in a small town church in Abbeville, South Carolina, known as the the birthplace of the Confederacy. Descendants of Anthony Crawford and descendants of his lynchers joined in a service of apology, forgiveness and reconciliation for that lynching and other racial injustices that took place there nearly a century ago.

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The Speech That Shocked Birmingham the Day After the Church Bombing

September 16, 2013

The day after four little girls were murdered in church, a young white family man gave a speech about racism at a meeting of his Birmingham men’s club. He was to be forever shunned. This is what he said.

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The Freedmen of Wisconsin

January 2, 2014

Some stories of the thousands of slaves who freed their families by escaping to Union lines. Why and how they came to settle and thrive in rural Wisconsin.

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Bayard Rustin: Unsung Architect of the Civil Rights Movement

July 23, 2015

Why haven’t more people heard about Bayard Rustin? Rustin organized sit-ins and freedom rides some twenty years before the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. He was the person who convinced Dr. King to use nonviolence in the Montgomery bus boycott, and he organized King’s 1963 March on Washington. Learn why Bayard Rustin remains an unsung hero despite his groundbreaking work over a long lifetime.

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Sundown Towns: Racial Segregation Past and Present

July 25, 2015

A sundown town is a community that for decades kept non-whites from living in it and was thus “all-white” on purpose. Sundown towns are rare in the South but common in the rest of the country. Learn why sundown cities, towns, suburbs, and neighborhoods developed–and how they continue to shape the lives and relationships of black and white Americans today.

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War on Drugs – or War on Blacks?

July 27, 2015
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The War on Drugs that began in the 1980s has led to an explosive mass incarceration of African Americans. This exhibit examines how and why.

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By Us, For Us: The Crucial Role of the Black Press

August 8, 2015

This exhibit gives a short history of the black press, some of the important journalist involved, and the vital role it has played in advancing the ideals of American democracy and supporting African American identity and culture.

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Nat Turner’s Rebellion: Horrific or Heroic?

August 10, 2015

This is the story of one of the largest rebellions by enslaved Africans in American history. It is also the story of historiography–how the past is researched, viewed, and written about.

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