Fisk Jubilee Singers, a group of African American singers established (1871) at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. It is one of the earliest and most-famous...
Florence Mills was an American entertainer who captivated audiences with her exceptional talent, charisma, and beauty. Born in Washington, D.C. in 1896, Mills began performing...
Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer lived her entire life in Virginia, where she tended her garden, worked as a librarian and teacher, hosted luminaries of...
Benjamin Elijah Mays, a distinguished African American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist, left an indelible mark on the landscape of civil rights, education, and...
The unanimous decision, upholding the right of whites and blacks to sell residential property to one another, was the first exception to state segregation laws...
After the United States abolished slavery, Black Americans continued to be marginalized through enforced segregation and diminished access to facilities, housing, education—and opportunities. Segregation is...
Born into a sharecropping family in 1931, Carl Brashear rose from little to become the first African American Master Diver and first amputee diver in...