Black Past: First African Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia

The encyclopedia entry about the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia,tells about the opportunities for both black slaves and freemen in this integrated church in the Antebellum South.

This encyclopedia entry gives information about the Silver Bluff Baptist Church, whose black congregation became the Springfield Baptist Church, which is still in existence.

The bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four little girls galvanized a civil rights movement. Clips include interviews with the church's pastor and a survivor of the bombings, as well as a...

Catalytic events wake people up. For Mary Church Terrell the lynching of her friend Thomas Moss lead to her involvement in the catalytic events of suffrage, anti-lynching, and desegregation. Learn more about this amazing woman and her...

Imagine a war being fought to free slaves, with slaves on the front line. Scholars use primary documents, videos, and research in the second installment of a three-part series to guide their analysis of the first African-Americans on the...

The site explores the colonial history of the city of Savannah, Georgia. This interactive lesson has excellent information, an inquiry question, historical context, maps, readings, images, and activities.

Making history as the first African American governor of Massachusetts, dip into a biography featuring Governor Deval Patrick.

Discover interesting facts about political activist and minister, Henry Turner, who became the "first African American chaplain in the history of the United States Army."

An interesting biography of P.B.S. Pinchback, first African American to be governor of any state. Read about his childhood, his life in politics, and his education to be a lawyer.

This brief encyclopedia entry tells about Ira Aldridge, the first African-American actor to gain international stardom.