U.S. Supreme Court decision (Plessy v. Ferguson)

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U.S. Supreme Court decision (Plessy v. Ferguson)

U.S. Supreme Court decision (Plessy v. Ferguson) upheld doctrine of "separate but equal" and began age of Jim Crow.

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When the Protesting Ends – Do You Just Go Home?

There is a ground swell in America, and for 13 days there has been multiracial protests and demonstrations based on the killing of George Floyd by four Minnesota

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Jesse Owens: Four Time Olympic Gold Medalist

During the 1930s, the Great Depression, Jim Crow Era laws and de facto segregation kept African-Americans in the United States fighting for equality. In Eastern Europe, the Jewish Holocaust was well underway with German ruler Adolf Hitler spearheading a Nazi

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Earl Warren , (born March 19, 1891, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.—died July 9, 1974, Washington, D.C.), American jurist, the 14th chief justice of the United States (1953–69), who presided over the Supreme Court during a period of sweeping changes in U.S. constitutional law, especially in the areas

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African American owned Newspapers and Media Companies Are Small Businesses Too! | Muslim Journal

Financial Support is Essential for Delivery of These Essential Services, a Minority Media Representation

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Source: Muslim Journal | Publishing Community News weekly since 1975!

Texas Southern University (1947- )

Texas Southern University, a state-supported institution of higher learning located just southeast of downtown Houston, was established on March 3, 1947 when the Fiftieth Texas State Legislature passed a bill establishing a Negro University with a law school to be located in Houston. This bill

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Houseless Residents Must Be Counted & Cared For Amid COVID-19

Now, as restrictions on businesses begin to slowly lift and the state continues to introduce its plans for reopening, it will be up to the people to determine how we will continue fighting this pandemic day-by-day—and make sure our houseless community members are not left

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

African-American History Timeline: 1900 to 1909

In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal was constitutional through the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Immediately local and state laws were created and in some cases, enhanced to prohibit African-Americans from participating fully in American society. However, almost

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Williams, Camilla (1919-2012)

Professional opera singer Camilla Williams was born October 18, 1919 in Danville, Virginia to Fannie Carey Williams and Cornelius Booker Williams. The youngest of four siblings, Williams began singing at a young age and was performing at her local church by age eight. At age 12, she began taking

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Amistad Digital Resource: Marcus Garvey

Born in 1887, in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, Garvey had been employed as a journalist, printer and labor organizer in the Caribbean and England before returning to Jamaica to establish the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), an organization rooted in the notion that black people throughout the

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History of African Americans in Chicago

The history of African Americans in Chicago dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable’s trading activities in the 1780s. Du Sable is the citys founder.[1] Fugitive slaves and freedmen established the city’s first black community in the 1840s. By the late 19th century, the first black person had

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Emmett Till , in full Emmett Louis Till (born July 25, 1941, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Aug. 28, 1955, Money, Miss.), African American teenager whose murder catalyzed the emerging civil rights

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1941

W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois , in full William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (born February 23, 1868, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 27, 1963, Accra, Ghana), American sociologist, the most important black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. He shared in

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1963

(1953) Thurgood Marshall, “Argument Before the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education”

Many historians and legal scholars consider the U.S. Supreme Courts 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education to be one of the most important and far reaching pronouncements in the history of the Court. On December 8, 1953 Thurgood Marshall, the chief legal counsel of the National Association

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1953

Black Freedom and Social Class in St. Louis, Missouri between the Great Depression and the Great Society

In the article below Clarence Lang, an associate professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas describes his book, Grassroots at the Gateway which explores the changes in 20th Century St. Louiss political, economic, and social landscape and how those changes both

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We need an independent police force to police the police. Periodt.

Historically, Black people have been tortured by police, lied on by police, and killed by them, and still we continue with this laughable system of police

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Source: theGrio

Remembering The Legacy Of Brown v. Board Of Education

(Trice Edney Wire) – Sunday, May 17, marked the 66th anniversary of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. the Board of

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How Jazz Helped Fuel the Civil Rights Movement

Starting with the age of bebop, jazz ceased to cater to popular audiences and instead became solely about the music and the musicians who played it. Since then, jazz has been symbolically linked to the civil rights

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Bayard Rustin (/ˈ b aɪ ər d/; March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. He was born and raised in Pennsylvania, where his family was involved in civil rights work. In 1936, he moved to Harlem, New York

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(1904) Mary Church Terrell, “The Progress of Colored Women”

Mary Church Terrell, the daughter of former slaves, became by the beginning of the 20th century one of the most articulate spokespersons for womens rights including full suffrage. In 1896 she was elected president of the National Association of Colored Women and by 1910 she was a charter member of

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Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver, Colorado (1973)

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Opinion | I’m a Black American. I Had to Get Out.

The only colors that penetrate those dark memories are the blue and red lights of police vehicles parked on every other street corner, swirling all night

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Al Mohler, Southern Baptist leader, says he was ‘stupid’ to defend slavery in 1998 CNN interview

(RNS) — In December of 2018, Albert Mohler, longtime president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, released a report detailing and denouncing the school’s legacy “in the horrifying realities of American slavery, Jim Crow segregation, racism, and even the avowal of white racial

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Rice, Condoleezza (1954- )

Condoleezza Rice has earned distinction as a scholar, expert on international politics, and with her appointments as the first African American woman National Security Advisor and Secretary of State of the United

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Source: Black Past

Nov

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1954

Ahmaud Arbery video was leaked by suspect to clear up local rumors

(Photo: Twitter) The video capturing the killing of Ahmaud Arbery by Travis and Gregory McMichael in Georgia has captured the national spotlight and sparked discourse about race. According to WSB-TV in Atlanta, McMichael gave the video footage to a local radio station himself in effo

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Our continuing terror: the murder of Ahmaud Arbery

The White church—that had blessed slavery, segregation, and apartheid in South Africa—was

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Tennessee Voices, Episode 32: Steven Lewis, curator, National Museum of African American Music

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Category:African-American history

Category:African-American history - Wikipedia

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Murray, George Washington (1853–1926)

South Carolina Congressman George Washington Murray was born near Rembert, Sumter County, South Carolina, on September 22, 1853 to slave parents. He attended public schools, the University of South Carolina, and the State Normal Institute at Columbia, where he graduated in 1876. After

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List of African-American inventors and scientists

This list of African-American inventors and scientists documents many of the African Americans who have invented a multitude of items or made discoveries in the course of their lives. These have ranged from practical everyday devices to applications and scientific discoveries in diverse

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'Running For Your Life': A Community Poem For Ahmaud Arbery

John Bazemore/AP

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