COINTELPRO
The FBI ran a domestic counter-intelligence program (COINTELPRO) that quickly evolved from a legitimate effort to protect national security from hostile foreign threats into an...
Category : Politics
The Black Liberation Army (BLA)
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The Black Liberation Army (BLA) was an underground, black nationalist-Marxist militant organization that operated in the United States from 1970 to 1981. Composed largely of...
Separate But Equal
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“Separate but equal” refers to the infamously racist decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that allowed the use of segregation...
Lyman Trumbull
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Lyman Trumbull, (born Oct. 12, 1813, Colchester, Conn., U.S.—died June 25, 1896, Chicago, Ill.), U.S. senator from Illinois whose independent views during the Civil War...
Andrew Johnson
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Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States, remains one of the most polarizing figures in American history. Born into poverty on December 29,...
Charles Evers
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James Charles Evers was born in Decatur, Mississippi to James Evers, a laborer, and Jesse Wright Evers, a maid. He was the eldest of four...
The Atlanta Negro Voters League
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The Atlanta Negro Voters League (ANVL) was a bipartisan political organization started by Black leaders in 1949 to form a united front to maximize the...
Emory Douglas
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Emory Douglas is an American artist, best known for his work as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until the...
The ‘Mississippi Plan’ to keep Blacks from voting in 1890: ‘We came here to exclude the Negro’
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By Ronald G. Shafer On a hot August day in 1890, delegates gathered at Mississippi’s Capitol Building in Jackson to begin work on a new...