Joan Mulholland
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland might seem like an unlikely civil rights hero: a white teenage girl with a conservative upbringing in Arlington, Virginia, during the Jim Crow era...
Author : samepassage
Henry Morton Stanley
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Henry Morton Stanley, a prominent figure in African exploration, is a complex and controversial historical figure. His expeditions into the heart of Africa in the...
Genocide In The Congo
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From 1885 to 1908, Belgian King Leopold II took control of the Congo. He turned the nation into a moneymaking machine by farming ivory and...
Fugitive Slave Ads
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Advertisement for a fugitive slave in the Oppenheim (New York, 1824) Readers of May 24, 1796, Pennsylvania Gazette found an advertisement offering ten dollars to...
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as DRC, is a country located in Central Africa. With a population of over 100 million people,...
Olivia Hooker, One of the Last Survivors of The Tulsa Race Riot, Dies At 103
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After surviving one of the most horrific acts of racialized violence in U.S. history and then making history as one of the first black women...
Congress of Racial Equality
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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), founded in 1942, became one of the leading activist organizations in the early years of the American civil rights...
The letter from the Birmingham jail
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In Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963, King’s campaign to end segregation at lunch counters and in hiring practices drew nationwide attention when police...
King Leopold II
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Leopold II, French in full Léopold-Louis-Philippe-Marie-Victor, Dutch in full Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor, (born April 9, 1835, Brussels, Belgium—died December 17, 1909, Laeken), was...