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Raphael G. Warnock (1969- ) [Children’s Edition]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This entry is for juvenile audiences. To see the full version of this entry, click here.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Who are they: U.S. Senator...
Wade Hampton (?-1917)
Wade Hampton was a Wyoming lynching victim. He was taken from the Rock Springs city jail by three men who...
Judy Lenteen Pace (1942- )
Judy Pace was born on June 15, 1942, in Los Angeles, California. Her father was an airplane mechanic and her mother...
Onie Burnett Granville (1916-1998)
Visionary businessman Onie Burnett Granville, a Los Angeles, California Realtor, founded two black-owned and operated state-chartered banks in the 1960s, the Bank of Finance in Los...
Erica Gwen-Elise Snipes Garner (1990-2017)
Erica Garner was an activist, writer, and leader in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Garner was thrust into a life of activism...
British Corps of Colonial Marines (1808-1810, 1814-1816)
During the first two decades of the 19th Century, escaped American slaves formed a military cadre that would eventually be called...
Eleanor Holmes Norton (1937- )
Eleanor Holmes Norton was born on June 13, 1937 in Washington, D.C. to parents Coleman and Vela Holmes. Both her...
(1893) Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law In All Its Phases”
Ida B. Wells emerged in the 1890s as the leading voice against the lynching of African Americans following the violent...
