5 objects that defined queer resistance
As LGBTQ+ History month comes to a close, we ask Bishopsgate Institute – Britain’s largest LGBTQ+ archive – to select some of the most groundbreaking pieces from their collection
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As LGBTQ+ History month comes to a close, we ask Bishopsgate Institute – Britain’s largest LGBTQ+ archive – to select some of the most groundbreaking pieces from their collection
Reconstruction and Its Aftermath The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed African Americans in rebel states, and after the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment emancipated all U.S. slaves wherever they were. As a result, the mass of Southern blacks now faced the difficulty Northern blacks had confronted—that of a free people surrounded by many hostile whites. One freedman, Houston Hartsfield Holloway, wrote, “For we colored people did not know how to be free and the white people did not know how to have a free colored person about them.” Even after the Emancipation Proclamation, ...