Frank Smith, Jr.
Commentator, civil rights activist, politician, and speaker Frank Smith, Jr. were born on September 17, 1942, in Newnan, Georgia. His mother was a homemaker and...
Category : Civil Rights
Charles Hamilton Houston
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A Champion for Racial Equality Charles Hamilton Houston was a trailblazing figure in the fight for civil rights in the United States. Born in 1895...
Dion Diamond
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Dion Diamond was one of a small interracial group that broke Jim Crow’s back in the Washington, DC suburbs in 1960. The sit-in movement in...
Jo Ann Robinson
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Jo Ann Robinson organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 that changed the course of civil rights in America....
Nannie Helen Burroughs
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Nannie Helen Burroughs, born in 1879 in Orange, Virginia, to parents who had been enslaved, emerged as a transformative figure in education, religion, social justice,...
George Houser
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George Houser, the son of a Methodist minister, became a pacifist while studying at the Theological Seminary in Chicago. Houser was influenced by Henry David...
Walter Francis White
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Walter Francis White was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on 1st July 1893. His father was a postman and his mother a schoolteacher. Atlanta had Jim...
Joan Mulholland
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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland might seem like an unlikely civil rights hero: a white teenage girl with a conservative upbringing in Arlington, Virginia, during the Jim Crow era...
Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit-in – Jackson, Mississippi
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A small group of students and faculty from Tougaloo College, a private and historically black institution in Jackson, drove downtown and sat at the lunch...
May, 1963 Protest
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On May 2, 1963, more than one thousand students skipped classes and gathered at Sixth Street Baptist Church to march to downtown Birmingham, Alabama. As...