Black History Archives - Page 18 of 36 - The Washington Informer

University of Maryland School of Law graduate Juanita Jackson Mitchell in cap and gown with her sons Clarence M. Mitchell III, Keiffer Mitchell and Michael Bowen Mitchell at the university's College Park campus (Paul Henderson/Maryland Historical Society)

Black History, Stacy M. Brown

Women’s History Month: Juanita Jackson Mitchell

by Stacy M. Brown March 20, 2019October 31, 2020

Medgar Evers

Trump Designates Medgar Evers’ House as National Monument

by WI Guest Author March 15, 2019October 31, 2020

Harriet Tubman

Black Experience, Black History

Nation Observes March 10 as Harriet Tubman Day

by WI Guest Author March 13, 2019October 31, 2020

The Washington Informer African American Heritage Tour on the campus of Georgetown University at Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart, which was built in 1893 (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)

Black Experience, Black History

Black Georgetown Overflows with History

by James Wright Jr. March 6, 2019October 31, 2020

Fannie Lou Hamer after being beaten in jail, June 1963 (FBI photo)

Black Experience, Black History

Phenomenal Women: Fannie Lou Hamer

by WI Webstaff March 6, 2019October 31, 2020

Roumania and Margaret Peters at Tuskegee Institute (University), c. 1937 – 1941 (Courtesy photo)

Black Experience, Black History

Black Georgetown Remembered: Serving Up Talent

by Dr. Shantella Y. Sherman February 27, 2019October 31, 2020

Photo by Hamil R. Harris/The Washington Informer

Black Experience, Black History, Hamil R. Harris

Man’s Harrowing Jim Crow-Era Stories Brought to Life by Son

by Hamil R. Harris February 27, 2019October 31, 2020

This African-American female legal mastermind, pictured with Thurgood Marshall, drafted what would become the argument for Brown v. Board. (Courtesy photo)

African-American History Trivia Challenge

by Dr. Shantella Y. Sherman February 27, 2019October 31, 2020

Police contribute to the confusion during white mob violence at a newly integrated federal D.C.-area pool in 1949. (Courtesy photo)

African-American History Trivia Challenge

by Dr. Shantella Y. Sherman February 20, 2019October 31, 2020

Thalia Nash-Mwaipaja revisited her Old Georgetown home recently with Washington Informer staff to discuss the love she maintains for the people and its history. (Shantella Y. Sherman/The Washington Informer)

Black Experience, Black History

Notes and Footnotes to a Life in Georgetown

by WI Guest Author February 20, 2019October 31, 2020