Anna Arnold Hedgeman
Political activist and educator Anna Arnold Hedgeman was the first African American woman to serve on the cabinet of a New York mayor when she...
Category : Civil Rights
Irene Morgan
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Irene Morgan was a civil rights activist who, a decade prior to Rosa Parks‘ landmark case, won her own U.S. Supreme Court Case in ‘Irene...
Oscar De Priest
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Oscar De Priest was the first African American elected to Congress in the 20th century, ending a 28–year absence of black Representatives. De Priest’s victory—he...
Spottswood William Robinson III
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Spottswood William Robinson III, a prominent federal judge during the Civil Rights era, was born on July 26, 1916, in Richmond, Virginia. His father was...
Bringing down Jim Crow: the Legal Battle in Virginia, 1933-1967
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James H. Thomas, 23, of Washington D.C., boards an Arnold Bus at 12th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW for a trip to Virginia on June 4,...
Oliver W. Hill
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Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, attorney Oliver W. Hill spent more than 60 years in a practice devoted...
Maggie Lena Mitchell
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Maggie Lena Mitchell was born in Richmond, Virginia on July 15, 1864. Walker’s mother, Elizabeth Draper, was an assistant cook and her father, Eccles Cuthbert,...
Harriet Jacobs
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Harriet Jacobs, in full Harriet Ann Jacobs, also called Harriet A. Jacobs, (born 1813, Edenton, North Carolina, U.S.—died March 7, 1897, Washington, D.C.), American abolitionist...
Henry Bibb
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Henry Bibb, lecturer, abolitionist, author, and newspaperman; b. 10 May 1815 in Shelby County, Ky, son of James Bibb and Milldred Jackson, a slave; m. first 1833 Malinda ——,...
Charlotte Forten Grimké
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Charlotte Forten Grimké, née Charlotte Louise Bridges Forten, (born August 17, 1837, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died July 23, 1914, Washington, D.C.), American abolitionist and educator best...