The Deacons for Defense and Justice were an armed self defense African American civil rights organization in the U.S. Southern states during the 1960s.The organization practiced self-defense methods in the face of racist oppression that was carried o ...
Posted Thursday, February 19th 2015 at 5:25PM
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Fannie Jackson was born a slave in Washington D.C. on October 15, 1837. She gained her freedom when her aunt was able to purchase her at the age of twelve. Through her teen years Jackson worked as a servant for the author George Henry Calvert and in ...
Posted Thursday, February 19th 2015 at 5:11PM
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Some call Venus and Serena Williams two of the greatest female tennis players of all time. While the Williams sisters are one of the most dynamic sibling duos in sports history, they weren't the first African-American siblings to take tennis by ...
Posted Monday, February 16th 2015 at 1:51PM
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Mary Fields was born into slavery in Tennessee in about 1832. She received her freedom when the war ended and slavery was outlawed but she stayed near her original owners, the Dunn family, as she and the Dunns’ daughter had become good friends. ...
Posted Sunday, February 15th 2015 at 5:23PM
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Posted Saturday, February 14th 2015 at 12:42AM
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Joseph Searles III (born 1948) was elected as the first African American trader of the New York Stock Exchange.
Joseph Searles III graduated from Kansas State University in 1963 with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science. After graduation ...
Posted Friday, February 13th 2015 at 10:19AM
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Lillian (Evans) Evanti, one of the first African American women to become an internationally prominent opera performer, was born in Washington D.C. in 1891. Evanti was born into a prominent Washington, D.C. family. Her father, Wilson Evan ...
Posted Thursday, February 12th 2015 at 5:30PM
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The Omaha Courthouse Lynching of 1919 The infamous Omaha Courthouse Lynching of 1919 was part of the wave of racial and labor violence that swept the United States during the “Red Summer” of 1919. It was witnessed by an estimated ...
Posted Sunday, February 8th 2015 at 5:56PM
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Posted Thursday, February 5th 2015 at 11:29AM
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress later called “the first lady of civil rights”, and “the mother of the freedom movement”. On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake’s order that she give up he ...
Posted Wednesday, February 4th 2015 at 2:26PM
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Harper Lee to publish new novel, 55 years after To Kill a Mockingbird
Go Set a Watchman, completed in the mid-50s but lost for more than half a century, was written before To Kill A Mockingbird and features Scout as an adult
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Posted Wednesday, February 4th 2015 at 2:10PM
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