Along with the Supremes, Martha & the Vandellas defined the distaff side of the Motown sound in the ’60s. Their biggest hits, including “Heat Wave,”...
The Marvelettes were an all-girl group whose original members were Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson, Georgeanna Tillman, Juanita Cowart, and Georgia Dobbins. They came together in...
Florence Ballard’s musical journey began in Detroit, Michigan, where she was born on June 30, 1943. Growing up in a large family, Ballard’s love for...
Martha Washington married a wealthy plantation owner before becoming a widow and inheriting his estate. She wed Colonel George Washington in 1759 and became the...
It’s estimated that 40 percent of slave owners may have been white women Most Americans know that George Washington owned enslaved people at his Mount...
During the Birmingham Campaign of 1963, Martin Luther King addressed Mayor Albert Boutwell in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” writing that he hoped the Birmingham...