Elizabeth Ann Eckford
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...
Category : History
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
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Sorting mail might not seem like a monumental task to most, but in war-torn Europe during World War II, it certainly was for the 6888th...
Atlanta Negro Voters League
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The Atlanta Negro Voters League (ANVL) was a bipartisan political organization started by Black leaders in 1949 to form a united front to maximize the...
Laurie Pritchett
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As police chief of Albany, Georgia, Laurie Pritchett gained national attention when he effectively thwarted the efforts of the Albany Movement in 1961–1962. Pritchett’s nonviolent...
The Albany Movement
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The Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962. It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to...
C. B. King
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C. B. King was a prominent African American lawyer known for his courage, courtroom eloquence, and legal skills in the face of fierce and even...
Robert Benham
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Robert Benham, the first African American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, also made history both as the first African American to establish...
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...
Pan-African movement
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In the nearly half-century between 1900 and 1945, various political leaders and intellectuals from Europe, North America, and Africa met six times to discuss colonial...
When Portland banned blacks: Oregon’s shameful history as an ‘all-white’ state
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By DeNeen L. Brown In 1844, all black people were ordered to get out of Oregon Country, the expansive territory under American rule that stretched...