Walgreens “Nashville” lunch counter sit-in, 1960
University students from black colleges in Nashville including American Baptist, Fisk, Meharry, and Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial School held a sit-in protest at the downtown...
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The Richard and Mildred Loving Story
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To say that Richard and Mildred Loving were reluctant heroes would be an understatement. Richard, with his platinum blonde crew cut, backwoods accent, and taciturn...
Charles Deslondes -The 1811 Louisiana Slave Revolt
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Charles Deslondes was a Creole Mulatto slave living on the German Coast east of New Orleans. Because he was a Creole and thus had lighter...
The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea
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Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it...
Prince Philip on royal duty: In his own words
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Despite the DoE’s many achievements in a long life of service, some will remember him as a man who was often blunt, sometimes to the...
Robert Lee Elder
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Robert Lee Elder (born July 14, 1934) is a retired American professional golfer. In 1975, he became the first African-American to play in the Masters...
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
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Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, (born March 20, 1870, Saarlouis, Rhine Province, Prussia [now in Germany]—died March 9, 1964, Hamburg), lieutenant colonel commanding Germany’s small African force...
The heroics of Aunt Polly Jackson who fought off white slavers to protect fugitives in the mid-1800s
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Slave rebellions and protests were not helping enslaved Africans in America gain their freedom, and this led them to devise other forceful means of obtaining...
Edmonia Lewis
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Edmonia Lewis, in full Mary Edmonia Lewis, (born c. July 4, 1844, Greenbush, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 17, 1907, London, Eng.), an American sculptor whose Neoclassical...
Victor J. Glover, Jr
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Victor J. Glover, Jr. was selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a Legislative Fellow in the United States Senate. He is currently...