The Albany Movement
The Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962. It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to...
Author : joe bodego
C. B. King
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C. B. King was a prominent African American lawyer known for his courage, courtroom eloquence, and legal skills in the face of fierce and even...
Robert Benham
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Robert Benham, the first African American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, also made history both as the first African American to establish...
Preston King
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In 1956, the U.S. military draft required all males at the age of eighteen to register to be drafted in the event of war. At...
William Bootle
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William Bootle, a U.S. District Court judge from 1954 to 1981, presided over several federal court challenges to racial segregation in Georgia, most notably the...
Desegregation of Higher Education
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In 1936 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) launched a legal campaign to compel the desegregation of southern colleges and universities....
Lillian Evanti
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Lyric soprano Lillian Evanti (1890-1967) was the first African American to perform with a major European opera company, but she also maintained deep ties to...
The Supremes
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The Supremes, an American pop-soul vocal group whose tremendous popularity with a broad audience made its members among the most successful performers of the 1960s...
Martha and the Vandellas
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Martha and the Vandellas, later known as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, American soul-pop vocal group that challenged the Supremes as Motown Records’ premier female...
The ‘Mississippi Plan’ to keep Blacks from voting in 1890: ‘We came here to exclude the Negro’
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By Ronald G. Shafer On a hot August day in 1890, delegates gathered at Mississippi’s Capitol Building in Jackson to begin work on a new...