After emancipation, Cal Johnson became a wealth businessman, politician and philanthropist. Landmarks around the city pay ...

1944: George Stinney, a 14-year-old African-American boy, is wrongfully executed for the murder of two white girls, becoming the youngest person ever executed in 20th-century America. On the same day, ...

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in ...