The South relied on slavery heavily for economic prosperity and used wealth as a way to justify enslavement practices.

Learn about African Americans in the early republic.

Being served at a lunch counter was normal for whites, but African Americans were not allowed to sit at lunch counters throughout the South. Learn details of the Greensboro Sit-In.

Explore aspects of African music as reflected in the songs and music of slaves who lived in coastal South Carolina.

Read about the tragic case of Emmett Till, an African American teenager who was viciously murdered in 1955. The case forced the public to see the brutality of the racism that was rampant in the South and it fueled the civil rights movement.