Bobby Seale
Bobby Seale, born in 1936 in Dallas, Texas, is a prominent figure in the history of African-American political activism. As a co-founder and national chairman...
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Huey P. Newton
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Huey P. Newton was an influential figure in the civil rights movement and a co-founder of the Black Panther Party. Born on February 17, 1942,...
Black Panther Party
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The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge...
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde was a prominent figure in American literature and activism, known for her powerful writing and unwavering commitment to social justice. Born in New...
Ruby Bridges
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Ruby Bridges, in full Ruby Nell Bridges, married name Ruby Bridges-Hall, (born September 8, 1954, Tylertown, Mississippi, U.S.), American activist who became a symbol of...
Fugitive Slave Acts 1793
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Fugitive Slave Acts, in U.S. history, statutes passed by Congress in 1793 and 1850 (and repealed in 1864) that provided for the seizure and return...
Phillis Wheatley
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A slave for much of her life, poet Phillis Wheatley (1753? – 1784) was the first published black American author and the second published American...
Drapetomania
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In 1851, Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright, a prominent Southern physician, published a paper in De Bow’s Review, a widely circulated periodical in the antebellum South....
East St. Louis “Race Riots”
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The East St. Louis “Race Riots” of 1917 saw the indiscriminate massacre of men, women, and children in a one-sided spate of brutal burnings of...
Henrietta Lacks
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The Immortal Legacy of a Medical Pioneer Henrietta Lacks was born on August 1, 1920, in Roanoke, Virginia, into a family of African American tobacco...