Black History Month celebrates the work of Americans such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Barack Obama, Sojourner Truth, Marian Anderson and Jackie Robinson.
A textile conservator examines a Pullman railroad porter hat from the 1930s that was donated to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Photo gallery: Successful businesswoman and entertainer Oprah Winfrey funded a girl's school in South Africa. See more examples of black economic empowerment.
Learn about the contributions of significant but less-prominent African Americans. Readers suggest future chapters to grow this Living Book.
One of the first successful challenges to segregation came in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 when teenager Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a white woman and, for the first time in the city’s history, fought the charges in court.
Until the civil rights movement, most American blacks could get a college education only from historically black colleges and universities. Shown here is writer Alice Walker, who attended Spelman College in Atlanta.
