-
July 28, 2021
Free Boy: A True Story of Slave and Master
In 2013, Lorraine McConaghy and Judy Bentley published FREE BOY: A True Story of Slave and Master (Seattle: University of Washington Press). FREE BOY explores the decision of slave Charles Mitchell to flee his master James Tilton, on September 24, 1860, following a tiny Puget Sound Underground Railroad. FREE BOY follows the twined biographies of […]
-
Up from slavery: An autobiography by Booker Taliaferro Washington
Complete online text of novel, “Up from slavery: An autobiography” by Booker T. Washington. Original copyright expired. Each chapter is transcribed and online as text pages.
-
Elbert Williams: First to Die
Before the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman & Mickey Schwerner in 1964; Medgar Evers in 1963; or Harry T. Moore in 1951, Elbert Williams on June 20, 1940, in Brownsville, Tennessee, became the first known NAACP official murdered because of his civil rights activity. Read about this historic incident.