Mary Mildred Williams again takes center stage in Jessie Morgan-Owens’ new book Girl in Black and White. Massachusetts Historical Society. On February 19, 1855, Charles Sumner, the Massachusetts ...

In the East, however, this image of Mary beside the cross is usually woven into the larger story of the Lord's passion, rather than—as in the West—isolated in individual hymns.

An embarrassed representative of the committee tracked Mary Ward down in the single house in Brown, Alabama, and asked if she were a black or white writer; so beautifully sensitive and nuanced ...

ST. LOUIS — One woman, Mary Meachum, helped facilitate multiple trips out of the St. Louis area for the sake of freedom. In the mid 1800s, enslaved people fled Missouri in an attempt to reach ...