White flyer with black text covering the whole of the front and back. Text is a combination of typed text and handwritten text. On the front, in the middle third on the left, are two (2) black and white images. The top image is of wounded and dead soldiers on the ground near buildings. The lower image is of police officers standing over bodies lying on the ground surrounded by smoke. At the top third is handwritten text [ON FRIDAY APRIL 26 THOUSANDS OF BLACK STUDENTS IN/EVERY PART OFHTE U.S. ...| National Museum of African American History and Culture
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African Americans have long had an interest in Haiti and the Harlem Renaissance saw a particular flourishing of artistic and cultural work about the island nation by prominent African American creators. The work of many African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance highlights the long-lasting linkages between Black Americans and Haiti, as well as the continued desire for connections across the African Diaspora.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
Juneteenth is a time to gather as a family, reflect on the past and look to the future. Discover ways to celebrate this African American cultural tradition of music, food and freedom.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
The "Little Rock Nine," as the nine teens came to be known, were to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School. Three years earlier, following the Supreme Court ruling, the Little Rock school board pledged to voluntarily desegregate its schools. This idea was explosive for the community and, like much of the South, it was fraught with anger and bitterness.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
To understand where we are and where we are going, we must first understand the forces that brought us here.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
Culture shapes lives. It’s in the food people eat, the languages they speak, the art they create, and many other ways they express themselves. These traditions reflect the history and creative spirit of African American and other cultures of the African diaspora.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
On September 15, 1963, an explosion shattered the quiet of a Sunday morning, blowing apart the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four young girls who were getting ready for Sunday School were killed almost instantly. Denise McNair, 11, Addie Mae Collins, 14, Carole Robertson, 14, and Cynthia Wesley, 14 died as a result of a bomb placed under the church by members of the Ku Klux Klan.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
Black students, whether studying at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or predominantly white institutions, came together to create these organizations, forging familial ties to one another and outreach within the larger Black community.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
Juneteenth is a time to gather as a family, reflect on the past and look to the future. Discover ways to celebrate this African American cultural tradition of music, food and freedom.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
The case of the Scottsboro Boys lasted more than 80 years and helped spur the Civil Rights Movement.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Juneteenth is an often overlooked event in our nation’s history. On June 19, 1865, Union troops freed enslaved African Americans in Galveston Bay and across Texas some two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.| National Museum of African American History and Culture