Civil Rights Organizations-NAACP
Lonnie Griffith Bunch III (1952- )
Historian and curator Lonnie Griffith Bunch III, born on November 18, 1952, in Newark, New Jersey, is a distinguished scholar...
Wesley “Wes” Coleman (1950- )
Wesley Coleman, corporate leader and Past Grand Sire Archon of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, was born on March 12, 1950,...
The Webster Telephone Exchange Building (1906- )
Located at 2213 Lake Street in North Omaha, Nebraska, the Webster Telephone Exchange Building is an important Black heritage site...
Maria Louise Baldwin (1856-1922)
Maria Louise Baldwin, a pioneering educator, made history in 1881 by becoming a teacher at the Louis Agassiz School, an...
How the Dr. Martin Luther King Birthday Became a Hawaii State Holiday
In January 2025, Daphne Barbee-Wooten, a Hawaii historian and social activist attorney wrote the article below describing the campaign to...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1950- )
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is an award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, and cultural critic. He was born on September 16,...
Harlem, New York (1658- )
Harlem began in 1658 as a Dutch village founded by settlers who named it after the city of Haarlem, in...
Sea Isle City, New Jersey, The Niagara Movement, and the Early 20th Century Struggle for Racial Justice
In the article below New Jersey historian Dr. Joseph A. LaRosa allows us a glimpse into the rarely discussed last...
Lincoln I. Mulkey and Dorothy J. Mulkey
Lincoln I. Mulkey and Dorothy J. Mulkey were the challengers in a major lawsuit, Reitman v. Mulkey, that reestablished housing...
