In 1957, Johnny Lee Gaddy watched African American children being actually fed to the hogs on the campus of the infamous Arthur G. Dozier Reform School...
James Meredith, a civil rights leader, organized the “March Against Fear” on June 5, 1966. He had enrolled at the University of Mississippi in 1962, four...
The two most brutal domestic slave dealers in America used a code to communicate. Slave trading was considered a “sport.” They were courageous “pirates” or “one-eyed...
The Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers in Richmond, Virginia was the first Black-owned bank in the United States. Reverend William...
Individuals will send unique notes to loved ones, family, and coworkers as the year draw to a close and Christmas approaches. Willie James Howard, a 15-year-old...
Homer Plessy’s one act of civil disobedience inspired the Civil Rights Movement of the twentieth century. He is most known as the plaintiff in Plessy v....
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, an African-American cardiologist, became the first surgeon in the United States to execute a successful open-heart treatment in 1893, exactly 125 years...
Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth was bombed twice and imprisoned more than 35 times during his lifetime, in addition to being beaten unconscious for seeking to enroll...
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also known as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, started in 1935 and lasted seven months, culminating in the military occupation of Ethiopia. Italy...
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was slain in Memphis, Tennessee, an incident that sent shockwaves around the world. King, a Baptist minister and...
