Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges, in full Ruby Nell Bridges, married name Ruby Bridges-Hall, (born September 8, 1954, Tylertown, Mississippi, U.S.), American activist who became a symbol of...
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Black Panther Party
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The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge...
Huey P. Newton
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Huey P. Newton was an influential figure in the civil rights movement and a co-founder of the Black Panther Party. Born on February 17, 1942,...
Bobby Seale
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Bobby Seale, born in 1936 in Dallas, Texas, is a prominent figure in the history of African-American political activism. As a co-founder and national chairman...
Eldridge Cleaver
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Eldridge Cleaver was an influential figure in the civil rights movement and an outspoken advocate for black liberation. Born on August 31, 1935, in Wabbaseka,...
Elaine Brown
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Born in 1943 in North Philadelphia, Brown moved to Los Angeles to be a songwriter. While living in California, Brown learned about the Black Power...
Black Wall Street – The Tulsa Race Riots of 1921
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The year 1921 marked a dark and devastating period in American history, as the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, became the site of one of the...
Henrietta Lacks
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The Immortal Legacy of a Medical Pioneer Henrietta Lacks was born on August 1, 1920, in Roanoke, Virginia, into a family of African American tobacco...
East St. Louis “Race Riots”
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The East St. Louis “Race Riots” of 1917 saw the indiscriminate massacre of men, women, and children in a one-sided spate of brutal burnings of...
Drapetomania
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In 1851, Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright, a prominent Southern physician, published a paper in De Bow’s Review, a widely circulated periodical in the antebellum South....