One potential obstacle to tracing African-American lineage is slavery, an institution that broke family bonds and made record keeping nearly impossible. Because African-American slaves were ...

During the decade it was on air, the show followed a traditional family ... that African Americans were just as smart, kind, and hard-working as everyone else in the United States. The 1970s ...

According to Nicka Sewell-Smith, Ancestry’s Senior Story Producer and a genealogist, “The truth is, family history research can be challenging for African Americans because of U.S. slavery and ...

Although the prospect of civil rights and equality for African Americans looked to have experienced a set back by the start of the 1970s, progress was made. In 1972, the United States Congress ...