Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni is an influential American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Born on June 7, 1943, in Knoxville, Tennessee, Giovanni emerged as a prominent...
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Ruby Dee
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Ruby Dee, a renowned Broadway performer and film actress, was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio on October 27, 1922. She was the daughter...
Lucy Stanton Day Sessions
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Lucy Stanton Day Sessions was born on October 16, 1831, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Samuel and Margaret Stanton, free African Americans. Her father, a barber,...
Visualizing the slave insurance industry
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Similar to the way people insure their cars, houses, and lives, slave owners would sometimes insure their slaves. Fearful of not getting their money’s worth...
Angela Davis
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Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author who has made significant contributions to the fields of civil rights, feminism, and prison abolition....
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, & Michael Schwerner
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The remains of three civil rights workers whose disappearance on June 21 garnered national attention were found buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi....
Fugitive Slave Ads
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Advertisement for a fugitive slave in the Oppenheim (New York, 1824) Readers of May 24, 1796, Pennsylvania Gazette found an advertisement offering ten dollars to...
Anna Pauline
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Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray was born in Baltimore on 20th November 1910. Her mother, Agnes Murray died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1914. Her father,...
Emmett Till
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Emmett Louis Till was born on July 25, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois, to Mamie Carthan Till and Louis Till. Growing up on the South Side...
Lothar von Trotha
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Lothar von Trotha was a German military officer known for his role in the Herero and Namaqua genocide in German South-West Africa (modern-day Namibia) during...