Frank Smith, Jr.
Commentator, civil rights activist, politician, and speaker Frank Smith, Jr. were born on September 17, 1942, in Newnan, Georgia. His mother was a homemaker and...
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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...
Presidents Who Owned Slaves
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John Adams: The second president did not approve of slavery and never owned slaves. He and his wife Abigail were offended when the federal government moved...
The History of Lynchings in The United States
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Lynching in the United States represents one of the darkest chapters in the nation’s racial history—a form of extrajudicial violence where mobs publicly executed individuals...
Thurgood Marshall
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Thurgood Marshall was a prominent American lawyer and civil rights activist who played a pivotal role in the struggle for racial equality in the United...
Civil Rights Act of 1875
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Civil Rights Act of 1875, U.S. legislation, and the last of the major Reconstruction statutes, which guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public transportation and...
Executive Order 9981, Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
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Establishing the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity In the Armed Forces. WHEREAS it is essential that there be maintained in the armed...
Barack Obama
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On November 4, 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was elected president of the United States over Senator John McCain of Arizona. Obama became the...
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, promoted Atoms for Peace at the United Nations General Assembly in order to ease Cold War...
Andrew Young Jr
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Andrew Young Jr. was a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement, a distinguished member of Congress, a trailblazing mayor of Atlanta, and a respected...