A San Diego native, Charla Wilson knew she wanted to write about the history of the city’s Black community for her master’s thesis at California State University San Marcos. Sifting through documents...

    Northwestern’s special collections contain a variety of rare, fragile and notably comprehensive materials, including a significant amount of publications produced by members of...

When Charla Wilson and her colleagues reexamined the McCormick Library’s African American document collection, they were surprised to find a series of letters written by 19th century abolitionist Frederick...

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Author and professor David Blight said at a discussion at Evanston Township High School on Friday that he struggled to portray a different side of Frederick Douglass because of the powerful narrative Douglass...