Shirley Verrett
Shirley Verrett was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who achieved international acclaim for her powerful and versatile voice. Born on May 31, 1931, in New Orleans,...
Author : joe bodego
Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech
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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous...
Grace Bumbry
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Grace Bumbry is an American opera singer who has made a significant impact on the world of classical music. Born on January 4, 1937, in...
Isaac Hopper
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Quakers played a huge role in the formation of the Underground Railroad, with George Washington complaining as early as 1786 that a “society of Quakers,...
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
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Following increased pressure from Southern politicians, Congress passed a revised Fugitive Slave Act in 1850. Part of Henry Clay’s famed Compromise of 1850—a group of...
Levi Coffin
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Levi Coffin, (born October 28, 1798, New Garden “now in Greensboro”, North Carolina, U.S.—died September 16, 1877, Cincinnati, Ohio), an American abolitionist, called the “President...
Lynching Preachers
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The Role of Religion and Racial Violence in America’s Lynching Era: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence. Between 1883...