Abigail Higgins

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.