David Walker: The Fearless Advocate for Black Liberation
David Walker, born in 1796 in Wilmington, North Carolina, emerged as a pivotal figure in the fight against slavery and for the rights of African Americans in the early 19th…
"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."
David Walker, born in 1796 in Wilmington, North Carolina, emerged as a pivotal figure in the fight against slavery and for the rights of African Americans in the early 19th…
Richard Allen was a prominent figure in American history, renowned for his contributions to the advancement of African American rights, particularly within the realm of religion and social justice. As…
Jesse Louis Jackson, born on October 8, 1941, in Greenville, South Carolina, emerged as one of the most prominent figures in the American civil rights movement of the 20th century.…
Charles Hamilton Houston was a towering figure in the American legal landscape, known for his instrumental role in dismantling racial segregation in the United States. Born on September 3, 1895,…
Dorothy Irene Height, born on March 24, 1912, in Richmond, Virginia, was a prominent African American civil rights and women’s rights activist. Her remarkable life spanned nearly the entire 20th…
Booker Taliaferro Washington was born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Hale’s Ford, Virginia, on the Burroughs tobacco plantation. His childhood was marked by poverty and hardship, as he…
June 12th, 1963 — 37-year-old civil rights organizer Medgar Evers was assassinated in the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. In the early 1960s Evers served as the first…
William Monroe Trotter was a newspaper editor and a realtor in Boston, Massachusetts. He was famous in black history for strongly advocating for African American Civil Rights and also founded…
John Brown Russwurm was an abolitionist who understood the power of the media. He published the first newspaper in American History owned by blacks and used it as a means…
Amiri Baraka formerly known as LeRoi Jones was a renowned figure in African American History. He was a poet, playwright, and civil rights activist. He wrote in a controversial style…