Shutterstock The Supreme Court and Dred Scott v. John Sanford Dred Scott fought for freedom in court after living in free ...

Shutterstock Cane River National Heritage Area The Cane River flows through northwest Louisiana where Caddo Indians once ...

Wikimedia Commons/Msact Seaside Sanatorium Connecticut built America’s first sunlight-based tuberculosis treatment center for ...

Wikimedia Commons/Bms4880 Pinson Mounds Complex Native Americans built the largest group of Middle Woodland period mounds in ...

Wikimedia Commons/Abernathy Family The 1965 Selma to Montgomery March About 600 civil rights marchers left Brown Chapel AME ...

Wikimedia Commons/Fred Bauder The 1895 Yellowstone Bannock Settlement Destruction (Wyoming) On July 13, 1895, a posse of 27 ...

Shutterstock The Cherokee Trail of Tears In 1838-1839, the U.S. government forced about 16,000 Cherokee people to leave their ...

Freedman’s Village in Arlington, Virginia The U.S. government built Freedman’s Village in June 1863 on land taken from ...

Wikimedia Commons/Deisenbe Fort Mose Fort Mose became the first free Black settlement in what is now the United States in ...

Shutterstock Action Park Eugene Mulvihill opened Action Park on July 4, 1978, in Vernon Township, New Jersey to make money ...

Shutterstock Wall Street’s Dutch Origins The Dutch built a wall in 1653 where Wall Street now runs. They called it “Het ...

Shutterstock The Havasupai of Northern Arizona The Havasupai have lived in and around the Grand Canyon for at least 800 years ...