Isaac Myers
Born free in Baltimore, labor leader Isaac Myers was the son of poor workers. He attended Rev. John Fortie’s day school and at sixteen was...
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Marsha Lovelle Turner Taylor
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Marsha Lovelle Turner Taylor was the first national leader of the Black Panther Party Free Breakfast Program. She was born on May 27, 1953, in...
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): Ain’t I A Woman?
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The Speech Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that ‘twixt the negroes of the...
Philip A. Payton Jr.
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In a career that spanned less than twenty years, Philip A. Payton Jr. became known for providing African Americans in New York City with an...
Beulah Mae (Gregory) Donald
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Beulah Mae (Gregory) Donald is best known for filing a civil lawsuit against the United Klans of America after Donald’s youngest child Michael Donald was...
The 1981 Lynching that Bankrupted an Alabama KKK
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On the night of March 21, 1981, a cross crackled and burned on the lawn of the Mobile County courthouse—the Ku Klux Klan’s grim protest...
Anna Louise James
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Anna Louise James was born on January 19, 1886, in Hartford. The daughter of a Virginia plantation slave who escaped to Connecticut, she grew up...
A WWI–Era Memo Asking French Officers to Practice Jim Crow With Black American Troops
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A French Directive Citation Information: ”A French Directive,” The Crisis, XVIII (May 1919), p. 16-18. The following directive was published without comment in The Crisis...
Josephine Baker, “Speech at the March on Washington”
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Josephine Baker is remembered by most people as the flamboyant African American entertainer who earned fame and fortune in Paris in the 1920s. Yet through...
Robert Robinson
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In July 1930, at a tractor factory in Stalingrad, a black American, Robert Robinson, quarreled with white US citizens: Lewis and Brown. These two (natives...