Affirmative Action
Affirmative action, in the United States, an active effort to improve employment or educational opportunities for members of minority groups and for women. Affirmative action...
Category : History
White Abolitionists Still Viewed Black People as Inferior
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White Abolitionists Ran the Movement According to Amherst College Black Studies professor David Blight, the issue of the race carried over into the abolitionist movement....
Thomas Jefferson
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Jefferson was a man of many talents. He was the author of the Declaration of American Independence, a founding father of the United States and...
Selma Hortense Burke
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Selma Hortense Burke was born on December 31, 1900, in Mooresville, North Carolina. Growing up in a racially segregated society, Burke experienced firsthand the injustices...
Sally Hemings
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Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman who lived in the United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She was owned by Thomas...
Oscar J. Dunn
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Oscar J. Dunn is best remembered as Louisiana’s first Black Lieutenant Governor, serving from 1868 to 1871. Dunn was born in New Orleans to an...
Dutty Boukman
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Dutty Boukman (Also known as “Boukman Dutty”) (died 7 November 1791) was an early leader of the Haitian Revolution, enslaved in Jamaica and later in...
Gaspar Yanga
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The heritage of Africans in Mexico after Christopher Columbus is a rarely explored topic in the history books of the Americas. Gaspar Yanga is one...
Annie Turnbo Malone
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Entrepreneur and philanthropist Annie Turnbo Malone was born to Robert Turnbo and Isabella Cook in Metropolis, Illinois on August 9, 1869. Her parents were former...
O.W. Gurley
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Once proclaimed the wealthiest man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, O.W. Gurley saw his property and his wealth disappear on May 31st – June 1, 1921, in...