Mary White Ovington
Mary White Ovington, (born April 11, 1865, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died July 15, 1951, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts), American civil rights activist, one of the white reformers...
Category : Civil Rights
Tarana Burke
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As an activist, community organizer, and executive, Tarana Burke has made quite an impact. Known as the founder of the ‘me too’ Movement, Burke’s hashtag...
Lateefah Simon
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Lateefah Simon is a nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and racial justice in Oakland and the Bay Area. She has been the President of...
Buchanan v. Warley
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The unanimous decision, upholding the right of whites and blacks to sell residential property to one another, was the first exception to state segregation laws...
Segregation in the United States
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After the United States abolished slavery, Black Americans continued to be marginalized through enforced segregation and diminished access to facilities, housing, education, and opportunities. Segregation...
Arthur Fletcher
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Arthur Fletcher advised four Republican presidents and for three years headed the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. He had a keen interest in education, personally providing...
National Council of Negro Women
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National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), an American umbrella organization, founded by Mary McLeod Bethune in New York City on December 5, 1935, whose mission...
Scipio Africanus Jones
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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...
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,...