Sally Carpenter slept in the servant’s quarters under 7-foot ceilings. She was the only Black person living on Observatory Drive in April 1930, and she lived there in the only capacity allowed to her.

DAY, WILLIAM HOWARD (16 Oct. 1825-3 Dec. 1900) was an abolitionist, editor, publisher, printer, teacher, lecturer, civic leader and clergyman who devoted his life to improving the conditions of his ...

The Harrisburg Board of Control, or school board, elected William Howard Day president in October 1891. It was a historic moment in Harrisburg and beyond: Day was the city’s first Black school board ...

ABOLITIONISM. The contribution that Clevelanders made to the cause of black emancipation was related to 2 geographic factors: the location of the city in the Puritan New England environment of the ...

Indigenous leaders from across the country have outright rejected the idea of mere recognition in the constitution, instead calling for a representative body to be enshrined in the nation's founding ...