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Not Just Tulsa

The 1921 Greenwood massacre remains horrific, but America’s historic black neighborhoods were more often destroyed by urban-renewal policies.

Not Just Tulsa | American Enterprise Institute

10 Little-Known Facts About Inventor Elijah McCoy

Elijah McCoy’s most famous creation, an automatic oil cup that lubricated steam engines on trains, may have spawned the phrase “the real McCoy.”

How Black people in the 19th century used photography as a tool for social change

For African Americans, to pose for a photograph became a way to counteract racist caricatures.

Rock Bottom | City Journal

How progressive reforms helped level a historic part of black Detroit

How Black people in the 19th century used photography as a tool for social change

Using images from the David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography, this article examines the ways Black Americans from the 19th century used photography as a tool for self-empowerment and social change.

Photography: A Tool for Self-Empowerment and Social Change

Black Americans used photography in the 19th century to combat racist caricatures and represent the Black experience accurately.

How Black people in the 19th century used photography as a tool for social change

In that spirit, this article – using images from the David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan – examines different ways Black Americans from the 19th century used photography as a tool for self-empowerment and social change. Black studio portraits Cabinet card portraits of African Americans from the David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography. Left: Man with Pipe, circa 1887. Right: Woman in Silk Dress, circa 1888. William L. Clements Library Speaking about how accessible photography had become during his time, Douglass once stated: “What was once the special and exclusive luxury of the rich and great is now the privilege of all. The humblest servant girl may now possess a picture of herself such as the wealth of kings could not purchase fifty years ago.”

Chicago lakefront, Catholic churches top newest list of city's most endangered historic buildings

Preservation Chicago called on the city and the Chicago Park District to seek a national park designation for Chicago's entire lakefront, which topped the group's new list of Chicago's most endangered historic places.

Owner, supporters fight to save historic Phyllis Wheatley Home from city demolition block

The city is poised to tear down the historic Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home at 5128 S. Michigan Ave., an early 20th century settlement house named for the former slave who was the first African American ever to publish a book of poetry, and third American woman ever to do so. The home was established by suffragettes in the early 1900s, to aid African-American women coming from Down South during the Great Migration.  Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times When Ariajo “Joanne” Tate and her husband bought a gray limestone in 1989, they had no idea their new Bronzeville home had once been the Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home — a historic settlement house established by Black suffragettes in the early 1900s.