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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Rally Posters

Asa Phillip Randolph was born in Crescent City, Florida in 1889.

Race Intelligence, excerpt

Scholar W.E.B. DuBois was an editor of The Crisis, a magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (or NAACP).

The Brownies’ Book, April 1920, letters from readers

The Brownies’ Book included different kinds of writing, visual art, and photography by adults.

The Brownies’ Book, February 1920, cover

The NAACP and W.E.B. Du Bois created The Brownies’ Book to speak directly to Black children about the world and their lives.

The Brownies’ Book, January 1920, excerpts

Here are a few pages from the first issue of the magazine.

Army Beta Test and Results

The US Army offered up its recruits as a test population for the new intelligence tests.

The High Tide of Immigration

Immigrants helped New York City grow and prosper in the late 1800s and early 1900s, yet they faced many anti-immigrant attitudes in their new home city.
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