One photograph (top right) is reminiscent of classic images ... and the free blacks who owned businesses and formed aid societies. Four and a half million African-Americans resided in this country ...

But until we acquired these images, we weren’t able to show in our collection that African Americans were ... which left free Black Americans like him vulnerable to capture as suspected slaves ...

The Monterey delegates who made California a free state did so largely on the basis of the mining economy. They did not extend civil rights to California's African Americans or Native Americans.

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...