The Stono Rebellion
South Carolina, September 9, 1739: A band of slaves march down the road, carrying banners that proclaim “Liberty!”. They shout out the same word. Led...
Category : History
Henry The Navigator
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A Pioneering Figure in Portuguese Exploration Henry the Navigator, born Henrique on March 4, 1394, in Porto, Portugal, was a Portuguese prince renowned for his...
Richard Aoki
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Bobby Seale. Eldridge Cleaver. Huey Newton. These names often come to mind when the Black Panther Party is the topic at hand. But in the...
Carter G. Woodson
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Carter Godwin Woodson was born on December 19, 1875, in New Canton, Virginia, to former slaves Anne Eliza and James Henry Woodson. As one of...
Bobby Seale
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Bobby Seale, born Robert George Seale on October 22, 1936, in Dallas, Texas (some sources note Liberty, Texas), is a pioneering African American revolutionary, political...
Eldridge Cleaver
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Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was born on August 31, 1935, in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, to Leroy Cleaver, a nightclub entertainer and waiter, and Thelma Hattie Robinson Cleaver,...
Elaine Brown
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Elaine Brown (born March 2, 1943) is an American activist, writer, singer-songwriter, and prison reform advocate best known as the first and only woman to...
Ruby Bridges
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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...
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,...