Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams was a pioneering American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Born on May 8, 1910, in Atlanta, Georgia, she began playing the piano...
Author : joe bodego
The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools
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The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer was perhaps the most ambitious extended campaign of the entire Civil Rights Movement. Over the course of roughly two months,...
CIVIL LIBERTIES ACT OF1988
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Enacted by the United States Congress August 10, 1988 “The Congress recognizes that, as described in the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians,...
Reparations in the United States
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Despite the success of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, however, the United States has yet to tackle reparations for another glaring injustice: the enslavement...
Oprah Gail Winfrey
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Oprah Gail Winfrey was born to Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey on an isolated farm in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on January 29, 1954. Her name was...
Wangari Muta Maathai
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A Legacy of Environmental Activism and Leadership Wangari Muta Maathai, born in Nyeri, Kenya (Africa) in 1940, was a pioneering figure in the fields of...
Moses Newson
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When the Freedom Riders risked their lives in 1961 to protest the segregated bus system in the American south, Moses Newson was there. When the...
Edward Rudolph Bradley Jr.
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Born Edward Rudolph Bradley Jr., June 22, 1941, in Philadelphia, PA; died of complications related to leukemia, November 9, 2006, in New York, NY. CBS...
Clara Mae Luper
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Clara Mae Luper, a prominent civil rights leader, was born on May 3, 1923, in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, to Ezell and Isabell Shepard. Growing up...
Sheriff Jim Clark
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In the annals of American civil rights history, few figures have left as indelible a mark as Sheriff Jim Clark. Clark, who served as the...