Tag: african american

Juanita Abernathy

Juanita Odessa Jones Abernathy was an American civil rights activist, and t...

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Black History Month: The Legacy Of Comedians

ABC News contributor LZ Granderson sits down with Martin Lawrence to talk a...

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Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington was one of the foremost African American leaders of th...

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Bessie Coleman

Bessie Coleman was an early American civil aviator. She was the first Afric...

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Reflections on the Greensboro Lunch Counter

Civil Rights activists Joseph McNeil, Diane Nash, and John Lewis reflect on...

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March from Selma to Montgomery

On Sunday, March 21, 1965, nearly 8,000 people began the five-day march fro...

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The Lasting Impact of the Little Rock Nine

On September 25, 1957, nine Black students courageously started their first...

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The Little Rock Nine Take on Segregation in Schools

Featuring Amandla Stenberg. In the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, ni...

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Children's Crusade of 1963

From May 2 to May 5, 1963, thousands of children left their schools in Birm...

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10 Black History Facts That Are Least Known

Did you know that before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin? How about...

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

For 382 days, almost the entire African-American population of Montgomery,...

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Thomas Elkins

Thomas Elkins was an African-American dentist, abolitionist, surgeon, pharm...

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones is best known as a composer and record producer for legendary...

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Louise Shropshire

Woman Who Wrote ‘We Shall Overcome’ Finally Gets Recognized For Civil Right...

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Katherine Johnson

One of NASA's human 'computers,' Katherine Johnson performed the complex ca...

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