Scipio Africanus Jones
Scipio Africanus Jones, a prominent attorney in Little Rock, Arkansas, played a pivotal role in the legal and political landscape of the late nineteenth and...
Category : Civil Rights
The Mayfield Ten
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Established in 1908, Mayfield High School was the white high school in Mayfield Kentucky. Ten students from Dunbar (“Colored”) High School chose to integrate Mayfield...
Robert Parris Moses
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Robert Parris Moses was an influential figure in the civil rights movement in the United States. Born on January 23, 1935, in Harlem, New York,...
Annie Lee Cooper
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The Fearless Fighter for Voting Rights Annie Lee Cooper, a Selma native, played a pivotal role in the fight for voting rights during the civil...
Walgreens “Nashville” lunch counter sit-in, 1960
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University students from black colleges in Nashville including American Baptist, Fisk, Meharry, and Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial School held a sit-in protest at the downtown...
The Richard and Mildred Loving Story
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To say that Richard and Mildred Loving were reluctant heroes would be an understatement. Richard, with his platinum blonde crew cut, backwoods accent, and taciturn...
lynching of Luther Holbert and his wife
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From 1882 to 1944, there were about 4,700 lynchings in the United States; Mississippi led the nation with 573. Of Mississippi’s victims, 93% were African...
The Story Behind This Iconic Image of a Black Woman Pushing Aside a National Guardsman’s Bayonet
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She speaks to many of us — a black woman, dressed in a buttoned shirt and jeans, pushing aside a National Guardsman’s bayonet as though...
Buck Franklin
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Buck Franklin was an attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who is most notably known for defending the survivors of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. He...
Ax Handle Saturday
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More than 200 white people wielding baseball bats and ax handles chased African Americans through the streets of downtown Jacksonville, trying to beat them into...