The Freedmen’s Bureau
The Freedmen’s Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former...
Category : Civil Rights
Albert Boutwell
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During the Birmingham Campaign of 1963, Martin Luther King addressed Mayor Albert Boutwell in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” writing that he hoped the Birmingham...
Sarah Jane Smith Thompson Garnet
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Sarah Jane Smith Thompson Garnet is best known as the first Black female principal of a New York City public school. She was equally active...
The Groveland Four
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The Groveland Four case was a 1940s example of injustice toward young African American men falsely accused of raping white women. The Groveland Four were...
Katherine Carper Sawyer
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Katherine Carper Sawyer is one of the nearly-forgotten plaintiffs in the famous Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. While most attention...
Anne Moody
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Anne Moody didn’t just write about civil rights, she lived it. Anne Moody is a well-known contemporary black native Mississippi author and civil rights leader....
Eugene Moszee
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Eugene Moszee was a civil rights activist in Seattle during the 1940s. Born in Floresville, Texas, in 1914, the first of ten children of illiterate...
WILLIAM HENRY JERNAGIN
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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...
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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Odetta Gordon was an influential American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and human rights activist. Born on December 31, 1930, in Birmingham, Alabama, she became known...