Calvin Littlejohn
Calvin Littlejohn (1909–1993) was a pioneering African American photographer based in Fort Worth, Texas, whose extensive body of work provided one of the most comprehensive...
Category : Civil Rights
William Lambert
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William Lambert was an abolitionist and civil rights activist who played a significant role in the fight against slavery and the advancement of civil rights...
Dr. Emory Hestus Holmes
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Dr. Emory Hestus Holmes was an African-American physician and civil rights activist. He was born on September 8, 1873, in Washington County, Texas, and died...
Donald “Muggsy” Murray
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Donald “Muggsy” Murray was a pioneering African American student-athlete at the University of Maryland in the early 1960s. He was born on January 4, 1941,...
Murray v. Maryland
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A Catalyst for Civil Rights Progress in Higher Education Murray v. Maryland (1936) stands as a pivotal case in the annals of American civil rights...
Herbert Lee
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Herbert Lee was a voting rights activist who worked to register African Americans to vote in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. At the time,...
Amzie Moore
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Amzie Moore was a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement, playing a crucial role in the fight for equality and justice. Born on September...
Willie Louis
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Willie Louis (also known as Willie Reed) was born on September 13, 1937, in Greenwood, Mississippi, to sharecropper parents. As a young man, he worked...
Mamie Till Bradley
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Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley, born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan on November 23, 1921, in Webb, Mississippi, was an American educator and civil rights activist whose life was...
J.W. Milam
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J.W. Milam was born John William Milam on December 24, 1921, in the small town of Kosciusko, Mississippi. He grew up in a poor, rural...