Civil Rights Activists
Lemuel Augustus Penn Sr. (1915-1964)
Lemuel Augustus Penn Sr. was the assistant superintendent of the District of Columbia (D.C.) public schools, a lieutenant colonel in...
Julia de Burgos (1914-1953)
Julia de Burgos was a celebrated literary icon of the Americas whose themes of Blackness, feminism, love, migration, nationalism, and...
Tent Cities of Fayette and Haywood Counties (1960-1962)
The Tent Cities of Fayette and Haywood Counties in Tennessee were the result of early efforts to register African American...
The National Black Political Convention, Gary Indiana (1972)
In 1972, Gary, Indiana hosted the National Black Political Convention. With over 10,000 attendees, it was the largest independent black...
Vernon Dahmer (1908-1966)
Vernon Dahmer, one of the most powerful racial justice leaders in the Piney Woods of southeast Mississippi, was killed in...
Thomas Detter (ca. 1830-1891)
Thomas Detter, late 19th century black businessman, Methodist minister, and civil rights advocate, was one of the first black literary...
Harry T. Moore (1905-1951)
Harry Tyson Moore was an African American civil rights leader and founder of the Brevard County, Florida chapter of the...
Olive Elaine Morris (1952-1979)
Olive Elaine Morris was a member of the British Black Panther Party and a grassroots activist in Great Britain. Morris...
William Henry Jernagin (1869-1958)
William Henry Jernagin was a Baptist minister, civil rights advocate and Organizer of the Washington Bureau of the National Fraternal...
