Attorney Thurgood Marshall led the civil rights case of Brown v. Board of Education of [Read More...]
History
Rosa Parks was a modest seamstress on her way home from work when she refused [Read More...]
Jackie Robinson became the first African-American of the 20th century to join Major League baseball [Read More...]
Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1895 – October 26, 1952) was an American actress and the [Read More...]
Moms Mabley, born in 1897. She was an African-American vaudeville performer and comedian, the first [Read More...]
Medgar Wiley Evers was born July 2, 1925, near Decatur, Mississippi, and attended school there [Read More...]
Famous in his own time for his eloquent oratory abilities and publications, Frederick Douglass went [Read More...]
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Hosea Williams, the son of blind African American parents, was born in Attapulgus, Georgia, on [Read More...]
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, [Read More...]
