Preston King
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...
Author : joe bodego
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...
Pan-African movement
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In the nearly half-century between 1900 and 1945, various political leaders and intellectuals from Europe, North America, and Africa met six times to discuss colonial...
Theodore G. Bilbo
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Theodore G. Bilbo was a prominent American politician who left an indelible mark on the nation’s political landscape during the early to mid-20th century. Known...
When Portland banned blacks: Oregon’s shameful history as an ‘all-white’ state
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By DeNeen L. Brown In 1844, all black people were ordered to get out of Oregon Country, the expansive territory under American rule that stretched...