When Rosa Parks spoke at Robert Williams' funeral in Monroe, North Carolina on October 22, 1996, she said those who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama admired Williams "for his courage and his commitment to freedom. The work that he
Paul Bogle was the spiritual leader of a free village community called Stony Gut, a former estate where the land had been leased out to the blacks after apprenticeship. The occupants of the land refused to pay rent to the magistrates in Morant Bay, for th
Born near Mayesville, S.C. on July 10, 1875, on a rice and cotton farm, Mary Jane McLeod was the fifteenth of seventeen children, some of whom had been sold into enslavement. In order to do their best by their children, her parents sacrificed so they coul
In Chicago, a group of artists, educators and community activists have come together to gather resource materials and plan a complex of projects and events to honor this outstanding African-American, Paul Robeson.
Paul Robeson was a giant of a man. He came from a family that set him many examples of truth and courage. His father escaped from Virginia in 1860 on the Underground Rail Road. He attended Lincoln University and went from there to the pulpit of a small ch
In 1902, after vigorously raising money in the New England area, Charlotte Hawkins founded Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, a day and boarding school for African Americans.
When the father of Edward Bouchet 1874 GRD 1876 arrived in New Haven in the 1840s, he came as the "body servant," or valet of a Yale student named Robertson. Less than 30 years later, both their sons were studying at Yale together.
Vivian Harsh was the Chicago Public Library's first African American librarian. Under her direction, the Midwest's largest collection relating to African American history was developed.
Born Jan. 26, 1892, in Atlanta, Ga., Coleman grew up picking cotton in Waxahachie, Texas. Raised by her mother alone, she and her brothers and sisters had to work in the cotton fields.
