Author Archives: Ligon
Many Thousands Gone: Tribute to Ira Berlin
“[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the mess, inchoate reality of history as live.” ~ Ira Berlin On June 5, 2018, Ira Berlin passed away at age 77, in the … Continue reading
A School Girl Makes History: Tribute to Linda Brown
On March 25, 2018, Linda Brown passed at age 76 (some reports claim 75) in Topeka, Kansas. She was the schoolgirl who was at the center of the 1954 US Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education. At age … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights, Tribute/News
Tagged Boiling v. Sharpe, Briggs v. Elliott, Brown v. Board of Education, Davis v. Board of Education of Prince Edward County, education, Gebhart v. Belton, Linda Brown, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Tina L. Ligon, Trichita M. Chestnut, Walter B. Hill
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Before the Mayflower: A Tribute to Journalist Lerone Bennett, Jr.
“An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor. ~ Lerone Bennett, Jr. On February 14, 2018, Lerone Bennett, Jr. passed at age 89 at his home in Chicago, Illinois. Bennett was a journalist and … Continue reading
Posted in Tribute/News
Tagged Chicago, Ebony Magazine, Jet Magazine, journalism, Lerone Bennett, Morehouse College, RG 412
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Living Testimony, Faithful to Cleo & Lifting the Race: Dr. Roland McConnell
Happy American Archives Month! Today’s blog was written by Dr. Ida E. Jones, University Archivist at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland Professor of history and author Dr. Roland Calhoun McConnell was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada … Continue reading
If Not for the Public Outcry: The Tuskegee Syphilis Project/ Study
Today’s blog was written by Timmia King, undergraduate student at Howard University and spring intern in the Textual Processing Division at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was conducted from the years 1932 to 1972, … Continue reading
“Roll Over Beethoven”: Tribute to Chuck Berry
“I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.” ~ Chuck Berry On March 18, 2017, Rock ‘n’ Roll legend Chuck Berry passed in his home in St. … Continue reading
Two Views: Marcus Garvey the Leader and the Threat
Today’s blog was written by Timmia King, undergraduate student at Howard University and spring intern in the Textual Processing Division at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland Coming into this project, I did not think I would find many … Continue reading
Posted in Diaspora, World War I Era
Tagged Marcus Garvey, RG 163, RG 21, RG 24, RG 59, Student Intern, Timmia King, United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Black History Month 2017: Blogs Related to Military
Happy Black History Month! This year the Rediscovering Black History blog at the National Archives would like to highlight select posts from the past. This public blog was created to inform researchers, scholars, students, and anyone interested in records related … Continue reading
Black History Month 2017: Blogs Related to Black Power
Happy Black History Month! This year the Rediscovering Black History blog at the National Archives would like to highlight select posts from the past. This public blog was created to inform researchers, scholars, students, and anyone interested in records related … Continue reading
Black History Month 2017: Blogs Related to the Post-Reconstruction Era
Happy Black History Month! This year the Rediscovering Black History blog at the National Archives would like to highlight select posts from the past. This public blog was created to inform researchers, scholars, students, and anyone interested in records related … Continue reading
