Monthly Archives: April 2014

Family, Farming, and Community: Photographs of African American Life in Putnam County, Georgia in 1941

Posted on April 22, 2014 by

Today’s Blog is written by Barbara Lewis Burger, a retired National Archives Still Picture Senior Archivist. A significant percentage of African Americans lived in rural communities until the middle of the 20th century.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, by … Continue reading →

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“Remember Fort Pillow”: The 150th Anniversary of the Fort Pillow Massacre

Posted on April 8, 2014 by

Today’s blog is written by Dr. Trichita M. Chestnut, Deputy Director Production Division of Data Processing at the National Declassification Center (NWD) at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland “…the black men who were killed at Fort Pillow…and elsewhere, … Continue reading →

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