Fred “Curly” Neal
Fred “Curly” Neal was a basketball legend for the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters and became a global icon while representing the sport around the world. During...
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Beulah Mae (Gregory) Donald
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Beulah Mae (Gregory) Donald is best known for filing a civil lawsuit against the United Klans of America after Donald’s youngest child Michael Donald was...
The 1981 Lynching that Bankrupted an Alabama KKK
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On the night of March 21, 1981, a cross crackled and burned on the lawn of the Mobile County courthouse—the Ku Klux Klan’s grim protest...
Dr. Vera Mae (Berry) Pigee
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Dr. Vera Mae (Berry) Pigee (September 2, 1924 – September 18, 2007) was a pioneering civil rights activist, beautician, author, speaker, and ordained Baptist minister...
Anna Louise James
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Anna Louise James was born on January 19, 1886, in Hartford. The daughter of a Virginia plantation slave who escaped to Connecticut, she grew up...
Daisy Nelson Moore
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Daisy Nelson Moore, a prominent figure in the history of civil rights and education, was a dedicated teacher and activist who played a pivotal role...
Louise Alone Thompson Patterson
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American activist Louise Alone Thompson Patterson (1901-1999) participated in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, was a close friend of some of its...
Joseph L. Graves, Jr
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Joseph L. Graves, Jr., is an expert in evolutionary genetics who has studied the process of aging through the reproduction of fruit flies. Another of...
William Augustus Hinton
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William A. Hinton was born on December 15, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents had both been enslaved. He entered Harvard College in 1902 and...
A WWI–Era Memo Asking French Officers to Practice Jim Crow With Black American Troops
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A French Directive Citation Information: ”A French Directive,” The Crisis, XVIII (May 1919), p. 16-18. The following directive was published without comment in The Crisis...