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Abigail Higgins is a journalist and writer in Washington D.C. focusing on health, gender, and international affairs.
When dozens of brutal race riots erupted across the U.S. in the wake of World War I and the Great Migration, black veterans stepped up to defend their communities against white violence.
Nearly 80 years before the Dred Scott decision, a midwife used the Massachusetts constitution to fight for her liberty.
World War I helped women around the world get the vote.
Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori was West African royalty before he was enslaved on a Mississippi plantation.