Executive Order 9981, Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
Establishing the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity In the Armed Forces. WHEREAS it is essential that there be maintained in the armed...
Category : Civil Rights
Frederick Douglass Patterson
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Frederick Douglass Patterson, renowned educator and founder of the United Negro College Fund, was born in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 1901. He was orphaned...
W. E. B. Du Bois
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W. E. B. Du Bois, born on February 23, 1868, was an influential figure in African-American history. He was a sociologist, historian, civil rights activist,...
Fanny Jackson Coppin
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Fanny Jackson Coppin was a pioneering African American educator, missionary, and activist during the 19th century. She was born into slavery on October 15, 1837,...
John Parker
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John P. Parker, born into slavery around 1827 in Norfolk, Virginia, became a notable inventor, businessman, and Underground Railroad conductor. Renowned for aiding nearly 1,000...
Underground Railroad
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The Underground Railroad was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South....
Orval Eugene Faubus
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Orval Eugene Faubus, a prominent figure in American history, is best known for his role as the Governor of Arkansas during the tumultuous period of...
Little Rock Central High School
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In the fall of 1957, when students were returning to the all-white Little Rock Central High School, nine new African-American faces were to be among...
Jimmie Lee Jackson
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Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot and killed by an Alabama state trooper in 1965; his death inspired a civil rights demonstration that led to the...
Andrew Young Jr
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Andrew Young Jr. was a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement, a distinguished member of Congress, a trailblazing mayor of Atlanta, and a respected...