THE BIRMINGHAM CAMPAIGN (1963)
The Birmingham Campaign was a movement led in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) which sought to bring national attention to the...
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Oscar DePriest
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Oscar DePriest was a trailblazing figure in American politics, becoming the first African-American congressman from the North when he was elected to represent Illinois in...
George Washington Lafayette Bickley
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George Washington Lafayette Bickley (c. 1819 – August 1867) was the founder of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a Civil War-era secret society used...
Knights of the Golden Circle
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Knights of the Golden Circle, a semi-military secret society that was active in the Midwestern states during the American Civil War. In 1859 George Bickley,...
James Edward Cheek
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James Edward Cheek, president emeritus of Howard University, was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, on December 4, 1932. Despite severe eye cataracts, Cheek was...
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
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Although the economic well-being and prosperity of the United States have progressed to a level surpassing any achieved in world history, and although these benefits are widely...
The Moynihan Report: The Negro Family, the Case for National Action
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The Negro Family: The Case For National Action Office of Policy Planning and Research United States Department of Labor March 1965 Two hundred years ago,...
Angela Bassett
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Angela Bassett attended the Yale School of Drama and went on to star in the Tina Turner biopic What’s Love Got to Do With It,...
Frankie Freeman
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U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Frankie Freeman was born Marie Frankie Muse on November 24, 1916, in Danville, Virginia. Her parents, Maude Beatrice Smith Muse and...
Cudjo Lewis-Last Slave Ship Survivors Describes His Ordeal
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More than 60 years after the abolition of slavery, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston made an incredible connection: She located one of the last survivors of...