Tiya Miles
Professor of History, Harvard University, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Director, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University. I was born...
Category : Education
Sterling Brown
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Sterling Allen Brown (May 1, 1901 – January 13, 1989) was a black professor, folklorist, poet, and literary critic. He chiefly studied the black culture...
Levi Coffin
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Levi Coffin, (born October 28, 1798, New Garden “now in Greensboro”, North Carolina, U.S.—died September 16, 1877, Cincinnati, Ohio), an American abolitionist, called the “President...
Elizabeth Ann Eckford
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Elizabeth Ann Eckford made history as a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in...
Morris Brown College
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Founded in 1881 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME Church), Morris Brown College is a private, four-year liberal arts school in Atlanta. It is...
Clark Atlanta University
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Clark Atlanta University (CAU), located southwest of downtown Atlanta, is a private, urban, coeducational institution of higher education. Fully accredited by the Southern Association of...
Preston King
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In 1956, the U.S. military draft required all males at the age of eighteen to register to be drafted in the event of war. At...
William Bootle
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William Bootle, a U.S. District Court judge from 1954 to 1981, presided over several federal court challenges to racial segregation in Georgia, most notably the...
Desegregation of Higher Education
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In 1936 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) launched a legal campaign to compel the desegregation of southern colleges and universities....
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault holds a place in Georgia civil rights history as one of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia....