Marsha Lovelle Turner Taylor
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...
Category : Civil Rights
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, a prominent civil rights activist, played a pivotal role in the Tent City campaign of Fayette and Haywood Counties in the early 1960s....
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,...
Alyce Chenault Gullattee
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Alyce Chenault Gullattee, M.D., was a prominent Howard University Hospital psychiatrist, civil rights activist, member of Union Temple Baptist Church, and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority...
Beatrice Coleman
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Beatrice Coleman was a pioneering civil rights activist in Fairbanks, Alaska. In 1946 she challenged Jim Crow segregation in the city by calling for the...
Lillie May Carroll Jackson
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Lillie May Carroll Jackson, a pivotal civil rights leader in Baltimore, served as president of the city’s NAACP chapter for 35 years, earning the title...
Prathia Hall Wynn
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Prathia Laura Ann Hall Wynn (January 1, 1940 – August 12, 2002) was an influential American civil rights activist, womanist theologian, ethicist, preacher, and educator. She...
Dr. John Morton-Finney
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Dr. John Morton-Finney was an accomplished lawyer, civil rights activist, and academic who accumulated eleven degrees over the course of his life. Born in Kentucky...
Gardner Calvin Taylor
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Gardner Taylor was a civil rights advocate, social change agent, prominent minister, and leader within the National Baptist Convention. Taylor became known as “the dean...