Claude McKay: Radical Poet
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” the most militant poem of the Harlem Renaissance. Mckay,...
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Ruby Bridges: The six year old heroine
Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all Euro-American public elementary school in the American South. Bridges was six years old and...
Honourable Mrs. Louise Bennett-Coverley ‘Miss Lou’ – Mother of Jamaican culture
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or “Miss Lou” was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, activist, radio and television personality and educator. Writing and performing her poems in...
Claudette Colvin: Arrested nine months before Rosa Parks
Claudette Colvin was a pioneering civil rights activist in Alabama during the 1950s. On March 2, 1955, at the age of 15, she was the...
Eldridge Cleaver: His soul on Ice
Eldridge Cleaver was one of the best-known and most recognizable symbols of African-American rebellion in the 1960s as a leader of the Black Panther Party....
Fred Hampton: “I Am a Revolutionary… I Am the People.”
“You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution. You can jail a liberation fighter, but you cannot jail liberation.” ~ Fred Hampton...
Asa Hilliard, III: The Pan-Africanist educator
“To know Dr. Hilliard was in some respects to know Africa.” Asa Hilliard, III was a world renowned Pan-Africanist educator who worked on indigenous ancient...
Mary Ellen Pleasant : The Mother of California’s early civil rights movement
[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...
Amelia Boynton Robinson: The Queen of Selma
“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...
Archibald Henry Grimké: Early 20th century champion of equal rights
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...