WILLIAM HENRY JERNAGIN
William Henry Jernagin was a Baptist minister, civil rights advocate, and Organizer of the Washington Bureau of the National Fraternal Council of Negro Churches. Born...
Category : Civil Rights
SOUTHERN NEGRO YOUTH CONGRESS (SNYC)
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Founded in 1937, the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC) was a civil rights organization that worked to empower southern black people to fight for their...
Odetta Gordon
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Anointed as the queen of American folk music by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Odetta Gordon, a coloratura soprano, was born Odetta Holmes on December...
Rufus Andrew Lewis
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Rufus Andrew Lewis was born on November 30, 1906 (d. 1999), to the late Lula and Jerry Lewis in Montgomery, Alabama. He was the youngest...
Maude Craig
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Maude Evangeline Craig Sampson Williams (1880-1958), a suffragist, civil rights activist, and educator, was born and raised in East Central Austin. After she graduated from...
Harriette Vyda Simms Moore
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Harriette Vyda Simms Moore was an African American educator, Civil Rights leader, and the wife of Harry Tyson Moore who was the founder of the...
Marsha Lovelle Turner Taylor
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Marsha Lovelle Turner Taylor was the first national leader of the Black Panther Party Free Breakfast Program. She was born on May 27, 1953, in...
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): Ain’t I A Woman?
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The Speech Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that ‘twixt the negroes of the...
John McFerren
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John McFerren was a civil rights activist best known for his involvement in the Tent City campaign of Fayette and Haywood Counties in the early...
Viola Harris McFerren
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Viola Harris McFerren was a civil rights activist alongside her husband, John McFerren, in Fayette County, Tennessee. Viola Harris was born on October 19, 1931,...