Thurgood Marshall: A Civil Rights Hero
Thurgood Marshall was an African-American lawyer, civil rights activist and the first African American member of the Supreme Court. As an attorney, Marshall successfully argued...
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Medgar Evers: Mississippi Civil Rights Activist
Medgar Wiley Evers was a Black civil rights activist murdered in 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi for his efforts to overturn segregation at the University of...
Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr.: The First Black General of the U.S. Army
Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr., was the first African-American general for the U.S. Army. His army career dated from the Spanish-American war to World War ll....
Thomas A. Dorsey – The Father of Gospel Music
Thomas Andrew Dorsey was born in Villa Rica, Georgia on July 1, 1899, to Etta Plant Spencer and Thomas Madison Dorsey, an itinerant preacher and...
Robert Allen Cole: A Pioneering Black Composer
Robert Allen “Bob” Cole (July 1, 1868 – August 2, 1911) was an African-American composer, actor, playwright, and stage producer and director, who influenced the...
Walter Francis White: A Blond African-American Civil Rights Activist
“I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon...
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
“Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation’s out of breath. We ain’t running no more.” ~ Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) Born June 29,...
Oscar Marion
[dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]scar Marion was an enslaved African-American and Revolutionary War militiaman. Oscar Marion was the personal servant of General Francis Marion (1732–1795). The general was...
York: The Black Explorer
Born into the Maafa (Atlantic trafficking and captivity) in the early 1770s, York was the only African-descended member of the Lewis and Clark expedition and...
Listen Children by Lucille Clifton
listen children keep this in the place you have for keeping always keep it all ways we have never hated black listen we have been...