Roy Wilkins, one of the leading US civil rights activists of the twentieth century, was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 30, 1901. Wilkins’ mother died of tuberculosis when he was four; he and his siblings were then raised by an aunt and uncle … Read MoreRoy Wilkins (1901-1981)
John Seamon Cotter, Jr., a talented playwright, journalist, and poet, was born and reared in Louisville, Kentucky. The son of journalist, playwright, poet, teacher and community developer Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr., the younger Cotter’s education began with his sister Florence Olivia teaching him to read. … Read MoreJoseph Seamon Cotter Jr. (1895-1919)
A journalist, radical activist, and theoretician, George Padmore did more than perhaps any other single individual to shape the theory and discourse of Pan-African anti-imperialism in the first half of the twentieth century. Born Malcolm Nurse in Trinidad in 1901, Padmore moved to the United … Read MoreGeorge Padmore (1901-1959)
