Walter Francis White
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Walter Francis White was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on 1st July 1893. His father was a postman and his mother a schoolteacher. Atlanta had Jim...
George Houser
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George Houser, the son of a Methodist minister, became a pacifist while studying at the Theological Seminary in Chicago. Houser was influenced by Henry David...
Floyd McKissick
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Floyd McKissick was a prominent civil rights activist and politician who made significant contributions to the fight for racial equality in the United States. Born...
Anna Pauline
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Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray was born in Baltimore on 20th November 1910. Her mother, Agnes Murray died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1914. Her father,...
May, 1963 Protest
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On May 2, 1963, more than one thousand students skipped classes and gathered at Sixth Street Baptist Church to march to downtown Birmingham, Alabama. As...
Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit-in – Jackson, Mississippi
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A small group of students and faculty from Tougaloo College, a private and historically black institution in Jackson, drove downtown and sat at the lunch...
Joan Mulholland
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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...
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...