Clinton Fisk
Clinton Bowen Fisk entered the world on September 30, 1828, near the Erie Canal in Western New York, born to Benjamin Bigford Fisk and Lydia...
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John Berry Meachum
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John Berry Meachum was born into slavery in Goochland County, Virginia. His master took him to North Carolina and then Kentucky. Meachum learned several trades,...
Fisk Jubilee Singers
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Fisk Jubilee Singers, a group of African American singers established (1871) at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. It is one of the earliest and most-famous...
Benjamin Mays
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Benjamin Elijah Mays, a distinguished African American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist, left an indelible mark on the landscape of civil rights, education, and...
The Bordentown School
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The “Bordentown School,” founded in 1886 in Bordentown, New Jersey, began as a self-sustaining, co-educational, vocational school in a two-story residence in Bordentown, New Jersey....
Dr. Josephine English
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Community leader and gynecologist Dr. Josephine English was born on December 17, 1920, in Ontario, Virginia to Whittie, Sr., and Jennie English. She grew up...
Mamie Phipps Clark
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Mamie Phipps Clark was born on April 18, 1917, in Hot Spring, Arkansas. Her father, Harold H. Phipps, was a physician and her mother, Katy...
Brown v. Board and “The Doll Test”
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In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of experiments known colloquially as “the doll tests” to study the psychological...
Dr. Kenneth B. Clark
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Dr. Kenneth B. Clark was a prominent American social psychologist, educator, and human rights activist who made significant contributions to the field of psychology and...
A Negro Schoolmaster in the South
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1899 account as a young, black schoolmaster in the South By W. E. Burghardt Du Bois Once upon a time,...