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Mary Ellen Pleasant : The Mother of California’s early civil rights movement

Meserette KentakeAugust 19, 2015August 16, 2020

by Meserette KentakeAugust 19, 2015August 16, 202015768

[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]ary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century African American entrepreneur who used her fortune to further the abolitionist movement. She worked on the Underground Railroad

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Amelia Boynton Robinson: The Queen of Selma

Meserette KentakeAugust 18, 2015August 16, 2020

by Meserette KentakeAugust 18, 2015August 16, 202003945

“My idea, my belief, my intention is for the United States of America to be known as a UNITED States,” Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson is

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Powerful and Inspirational Quotes by Marcus Garvey

Meserette KentakeAugust 17, 2015June 8, 2020

by Meserette KentakeAugust 17, 2015June 8, 20202 8541

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Archibald Henry Grimké: Early 20th century champion of equal rights

Uchenna EdehAugust 17, 2015August 16, 2020

by Uchenna EdehAugust 17, 2015August 16, 202002699

Archibald Henry Grimké was a leading African-American intellectual, activist, and author on racial equality in early 20th Century America. Grimké was born into the Maafa

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Marcus Mosiah Garvey: Jamaica’s first National Hero

Meserette KentakeAugust 17, 2015June 9, 2020

by Meserette KentakeAugust 17, 2015June 9, 202005016

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. (ONH) was a Jamaican-born Black nationalist who created a ‘Back to Africa’ movement in the United States. He became an inspirational

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Runoko Rashidi: The Pharaoh of Black History

Meserette KentakeAugust 16, 2015March 1, 2026

by Meserette KentakeAugust 16, 2015March 1, 20262 10323

Runoko Rashidi was an African American historian, anthropologist and public lecturer, and one of the world’s leading authorities on the African presence in Asia, Australia,

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Ten Powerful Quotes on Black History by Runoko Rashidi

Meserette KentakeAugust 16, 2015March 1, 2026

by Meserette KentakeAugust 16, 2015March 1, 20262 6660

Runoko Rashidi (August 16, 1954 – August 2, 2021) was an anthropologist, historian, writer and public lecturer whose life work centered on what he termed

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Black British Composer and Political Activist

Meserette KentakeAugust 15, 2015August 16, 2020

by Meserette KentakeAugust 15, 2015August 16, 202003801

“Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is today all but forgotten in the country of his birth. The works of this talented composer are now out of fashion; and

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Monroe Nathan Work: A leading early 20th Century Sociologist

Meserette KentakeAugust 15, 2015April 21, 2018

by Meserette KentakeAugust 15, 2015April 21, 201803261

[dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]onroe Nathan Work was a sociologist who founded the Department of Records and Research at the Tuskegee Institute in 1908 and expanded its national

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Henrietta Vinton Davis: Lady Commander Order of the Nile

Meserette KentakeAugust 15, 2015August 12, 2020

by Meserette KentakeAugust 15, 2015August 12, 202005997

Henrietta Vinton Davis was a Shakespearean actor and public speaker. She was proclaimed by Marcus Garvey to be “the greatest woman of the [African] race”.

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