The Bordentown School
The “Bordentown School,” founded in 1886 in Bordentown, New Jersey, began as a self-sustaining, co-educational, vocational school in a two-story residence in Bordentown, New Jersey....
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Catcher Race Riot of 1923
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The December 28, 1923, assault and murder of a white woman in the Catcher community in Crawford County quickly ignited a firestorm of racial hatred...
Scipio Africanus Jones
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The Great Migrations from 1910 to 1960 marked a significant demographic shift in the United States, as millions of African Americans made the journey from...
Harold Bethuel Evans
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Ronald E. Mickens
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Eric Pierce
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Eric Pierce’s work studying the interaction between water and rocks has taken him from coast to coast, including a stop in Washington, DC, before settling...
Dr. Josephine English
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Community leader and gynecologist Dr. Josephine English was born on December 17, 1920, in Ontario, Virginia to Whittie, Sr., and Jennie English. She grew up...
Mamie Phipps Clark
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Mamie Phipps Clark was born on April 18, 1917, in Hot Spring, Arkansas. Her father, Harold H. Phipps, was a physician and her mother, Katy...
Brown v. Board and “The Doll Test”
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In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of experiments known colloquially as “the doll tests” to study the psychological...