Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
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John Stewart Rock was the first Black person to be admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United State. Rock was an eloquent African American activist and master...
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress. With his moderate political...
George Lester Jackson was an African-American political revolutionary, prisoners’ rights activist, author, a member of the Black Panther...
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“Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it,...
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