• A New Year, A New Beginning

    The Baton Foundation will host a virtual expressive arts workshop to help individuals ground themselves as we begin a new year -- and a new chapter in American history. About […]

  • Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad

    About the Book Riding Jane Crow tells the overlooked story of Black women on American trains, from before the Civil War to more contemporary times. How did Black intellectual women such as Ida B. Wells fight racial segregation through lawsuits, before the (in)famous Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896? Who were the Black […]

  • An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South

    About the Book Between Fort Sumter and Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands of Black men, women, and children through a persisting trade in enslaved people. They did so for […]