[…] the Negro in America,” and he was the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) vice-president from 1937 to 1941. When Marian Anderson was denied access to Constitution Hall, Wilkerson, with Paul Robeson and others, led the effort to move the 1939 concert to the Lincoln […] … Read MoreDoxey Wilkerson (1905-1993)
[…] to 1955. Nix attended Temple University for postgraduate studies in business administration and economics. After passing the Pennsylvania bar, Nix became a deputy attorney general for the state of Pennsylvania in 1956. Afterward, he went into private practice with his father and a colleague […] … Read MoreRobert Nelson Cornelius Nix Jr. (1928–2003)
Arthur Allen Fletcher is known to many as the father of affirmative action. In the following account historian David Hamilton Golland describes the career of Fletcher, a Republican civil rights activist during the last half of the 20th Century. Arthur Allen Fletcher, known to many […] … Read MoreArthur Allen Fletcher, “The Father of Affirmative Action”
[…] only African American to hold the position of Treasurer of the United States. Taylor was born to Fleta Hazel Taylor, who was deaf and mute, on February 1st, 1936 in the small community of St. John Colony of Dale, Texas. Taylor did not know […] … Read MoreAzie Taylor Morton (1936-2003)
[…] from the Fort Worth Colored High School (later I. M. Terrell High School) in Fort Worth in 1919. She obtained her B.A. degree in Education at Howard University in Washington, D.C. in 1923, and began her teaching career at I. M. Terrell High School […] … Read MoreHazel Harvey Peace (1903-2008)
[…] knowledgeable of the 1955-1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott in the United States, Stephenson recruited one of best pupils, 18-year-old Guy Baily, and together decided to respond to a vacant bus conductor employment advertisement in the Bristol’s Evening Post. At his interview, the bus manager told […] … Read MoreThe Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963
[…] the war, Clifford enrolled in Storer College, an all-black institution in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia and received a diploma and an A.M. degree from the institution in 1875. He taught at the Sumner School in Martinsville, West Virginia. between 1875 and 1885 as a […] … Read MoreJohn Robert “J.R.” Clifford (1848-1933)
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March 18, 1996, Decided OPINION: JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit With the best of intentions, in order to increase the enrollment of certain favored classes of minority students, the University of Texas School of Law […] … Read More(1996) Hopwood v. State of Texas
[…] of the Nassau Presbyterian Church were released from the congregation to form their own church. Nassau had just suffered a fire that destroyed their church. Although slaves and indentured servants were allowed to attend Nassau Presbyterian, they suffered much racism and were forced to […] … Read MoreWitherspoon Street Church (1836- )
