Racial Conflict – Segregation/Integration
American Negro Academy (1897-1924)
Founded on March 5, 1897 in Washington, D.C. by 78-year-old Reverend Alexander Crummell, the American Negro Academy (ANA) was an...
Dorothy Irene Height (1912-2010)
Born on March 24, 1912, Dorothy Irene Height was an activist, administrator, and educator dedicated to racial and women’s equality...
William Edward Burghardt DuBois (1868-1963)
Educator, essayist, journalist, scholar, social critic, and activist W.E.B. DuBois, was born to Mary Sylvina Burghardt and Alfred Dubois on...
Whitney M. Young Jr. (1921-1971)
Whitney Moore Young, Jr. was born July 31, 1921 in Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky on the campus of Lincoln Institute where...
Gloria Richardson (1922-2021)
Civil Rights activist Gloria Hayes Richardson was born Gloria St. Clair Hayes on May 6, 1922 in Baltimore, Maryland to...
Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942-2024)
Bernice Johnson Reagon, singer/ composer, cultural historian, author, and producer, was born on October 4, 1942 in Dougherty County, Georgia,...
Jermain Wesley Loguen (1813-1872)
Image Ownership: Public Domain Jermain Wesley Loguen was born into slavery on February 5, 1813, in Tennessee. His mother was...
Anthony Burns (1834-1862)
The youngest of thirteen children, Anthony Burns was born into slavery in Virginia on May 31, 1834. His family was...
Bishop Alexander Walters (1858-1917)
Alexander Walters was born in 1858 into a slave family in Bardstown, Kentucky, the sixth of eight children. By the...
