Samuel DuBois Cook is a retired Dillard University president and, with his appointment to the Duke University faculty in 1966, was the first African American professor to hold a regular faculty appointment at any predominantly white college or university in the South. Cook also served … Read More … Read MoreSamuel DuBois Cook (1928- )
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The Sylvers, an R&B family vocal ensemble, was officially formed in the Watts section of Los Angeles, California in 1971. The four older siblings, however, had performed and recorded earlier as the Little Angels. The group members comprised singer Olympia Ann Sylvers, born October 13, … Read More … Read MoreThe Sylvers (1971-1985)
For the first two years of the Civil War black and white abolitionists urged both the liberation of the slaves and the recruitment of African American men in defense of the Union. Barely three months after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, Frederick Douglass gave … Read More … Read More(1863) Frederick Douglass, Men of Color, To Arms!
In 1895 Booker T. Washington, the founder and Principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama rose to national prominence when he gave his famous Atlanta Compromise Speech at the Cotton States Exposition. Approximately one year later on September 30, 1896, Washington addressed an audience at the … Read More … Read More(1896) Booker T. Washington, “Democracy and Education”
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SWEATT v. PAINTER, 339 U.S. 629 (1950) SWEATT v. PAINTER ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS. No. 44. Argued April 4, 1950. Decided June 5, 1950. Petitioner was denied admission to the state-supported University of Texas Law School, solely because he is … Read More … Read More(1950) Sweatt v. Painter
American television broadcaster Robin René Roberts is the anchor of Good Morning America, an ABC morning news show broadcast from its studios in New York, New York. In December 2013, she quietly came out as a lesbian in a Facebook post that acknowledged her long-time … Read More … Read MoreRobin René Roberts (1960- )
Classic Funk/ R&B band the Brothers Johnson comprised two biological brothers and bandmates, composer/ guitarist/ vocalist George “Lightnin’ Licks” Johnson, born on May 17, 1953, and composer/ bassist/ vocalist Louis E. “Thunder Thumbs” Johnson who was on April 13, 1955. They were both born in … Read More … Read MoreBrothers Johnson (1973- )
By 1964 George C. Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, had become the national symbol of opposition to the civil rights movement and to federal governmental intervention to protect the rights of African Americans. In the address below he denounces President Lyndon B. Johnson for signing … Read More … Read More(1964) George C. Wallace, “The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax”
