Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged

North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end

In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that be

Revisits the arguments supporting separate black statehood from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.