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A Mixed Bag

The family of Maum Agnes (seated), a former Ball slave. When this photograph was taken in about 1920, they were among the last sharecroppers…

A Mixed Blessing

A young boy on Quenby plantation. Slave children were usually put to work when they were about six years old. You'…

Timeline: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Part I

Part I: Youth 1929 1948 1951 1953 1954 1955 Next: Early Activism 1929 Martin Luther King, Jr., is born in Atlanta to teacher Alberta King and…

Timeline: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Part III

Part III: National Figure 1963 1964 1965 Next: New Directions for Civil Rights 1963 King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in…

Tarnished Heritage

Elias "Red Cap" Ball founded a plantation dynasty that endured for more than two centuries.As a work of genealogy, Slaves is impressive. In his research, Ball pored over more than ten…

The Rest of the Story

"We have a country with a tragic history that is as powerful as its heroic history. We have to incorporate those realities in our understanding of who we are... there's a missing part of the…

One Small Step

Edward Ball with his distant cousin Carolyn Smalls Goodson, a descendant of Ball slaves.In the course of his research, Ball attempted to calculate the number of descendants of Ball slaves…

Timeline: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Part II

Part II: Early Activism 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 Next: National Figure 1955 The 26-year-old King leads boycott of segregated Montgomery…

Timeline: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Part V

Part V: The Legacy 1968 1980 2006 Back to the Beginning 1968 Coretta Scott King founds the King Center in Atlanta. Top 1969 IP…

The Murder of Medgar Evers

Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers in 1994, 30 years after the fact Related Links Black History Month Encyclopedia: Civil Rights For Kids: Civil…

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