In the late 1770s, George Lisle, an emancipated slave, became a Christian in his master’s church and later started the first African-American Baptist church in Georgia. He is also thought to be ...

I’ve concluded that African-American history might best be viewed as a series of great migrations, during which immigrants—at first forced and then free—transformed an alien place into a ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.