MIDWEST BLACK HISTORY
Select a State Below
Illinois
- Chicago Founder Jean Baptiste Point DuSable (WTTW)
- New Philadelphia: A Multiracial Town on the Illinois Frontier
- Slavery & Illinois
- Illinois Black Laws
- Illinois Underground Railroad
- Bronzeville Renaissance
- The Great Migration & Chicago (WTTW)
- The Chicago Blues
- Pullman Porters & the Civil Rights Movement (WTTW)
- Carol Mosely Braun, U.S. Senate Trailblazer
- Addie Wyatt
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Michigan
- Malcom X in Michigan
- Rosa Parks in Detroit
- Sojourner Truth's Michigan Life
- "I Have a Dream" Road Test: MLK in Detroit
- Civil War: The 1st Michigan Volunteers
- Underground Railroad Conductor George DeBaptiste
- Detroit Race Riots
- Michigan Underground Railroad
- Detroit Mayor Coleman Young
- "Black Eden": Idlewild (WTTW)
- Michigan's Underground Railroad and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act
Minnesota
Missouri
- Ferguson & Black Lives Matter
- Missouri 1861: The 1st Emancipation Proclamation
- 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Civil War
- The 1836 Lynching of Francis McIntosh
- Funsten Strikes & Black Women Activism
- Kansas City Monarchs
- Shelley v. Kraemer: Supreme Court Housing Equality Case
- Ragtime: Jazz’s Forebear
- St. Louis Freedom Suits
Nebraska
Ohio
- Ohio Slavery Ban & Anti-Black Laws
- Sally Hemings & Thomas Jeffersion's Ohio Family
- 1829 Cincinnati Riot
- Josiah “Uncle Tom” Henson's Escape through Ohio
- Oberlin Fugitive Slave Standoff/Rescue
- John Mercer Langston
- 5th Ohio USCT in the Civil War
- Jesse Owens: Humiliating Hitler
- LeBron James: Legacy of Akron’s Great Migration
- Margaret Garner & Toni Morrison's Beloved
Wisconsin
- Wisconsin Underground Railroad
- Illegal Slavery in Lead Mines
- Pleasant Ridge Free Black Settlement
- The Booth Slavery Resistance Case
- The Paul Jones "Slave Wages" Case
- Voting Rights Crusader Ezekiel Gillespie
- Milwaukee & the Great Migration
- Political Trailblazer Vel Phillips (Video)
- March on Milwaukee for Fair Housing
Professor Christy Clark-Pujara on Black Wisconsin History
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Dr. Clark-Pujara is Chair of the African American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an Executive Producer of The African American Midwest.