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(AURN News) — On July 2, 1777, Vermont made history by becoming the first U.S. territory to ban slavery. While the American…
(AURN News) — On June 14, 1877, Henry Ossian Flipper became the first African American to graduate from West Point. Born enslaved…
(AURN News) — Clarence B. Jones, one of the architects of the civil rights movement, has died at 95, according to The…
(AURN News) — On April 17, 1863, nearly a century before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, Charlotte L. Brown defied…
(AURN News) — The long-hidden barn in the Mississippi Delta where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed in 1955 will be…