In 1894, Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey led a march of unemployed workers to Washington, DC, to protest economic hardship during the Panic of 1893 — the worst economic depression in the US until the ...
There are more famous cities associated with the history of blues, but only this Texas town can claim to be the lifelong home ...
With help from Penn State’s Center for Black Digital Research, the mural draws attention to the activism of 19th-century Black women.