Category : History

History

Carl Brashear

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Born into a sharecropping family in 1931, Carl Brashear rose from little to become the first African American Master Diver and first amputee diver in...
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The George Latimer Case

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In the fall of 1842, the arrest of George Latimer, a fugitive slave who had escaped from Virginia to Boston, Massachusetts, ignited a firestorm of...
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Helen Pitts

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Helen Pitts Douglass (1838–1903) was a formidable figure in the fight for social justice, whose life was marked by courage, conviction, and an unwavering commitment...
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Anna Murray Douglass

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Anna Murray, the wife of Frederick Douglass and the mother of their children, personifies the unheralded woman behind the great man. She’s lucky to get...