"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."
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…
At a time when slavery defined African Americans and education was reserved for white folks, Mary McLeod Bethune was a pioneer in the education of Black people. McLeod Bethune was…