James Thomas Saunders Redding was born in Wilmington, Delaware on October 13, 1906 to Lewis Alfred Redding and Mary Ann Holmes. Redding earned a bachelor of philosophy (Ph.B.) in 1928 and later a master of arts (M.A.) in 1932 from Brown University. Redding also earned … Read MoreJ. Saunders Redding (1906-1988)
Barack Obama was the 44th President of the United States and the first African American to occupy the White House. Obama was born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was a Kenyan graduate student studying in the United States, and … Read MoreBarack Obama Jr. (1961- )
Richard Allen, politician and civic leader, was born a slave in Richmond, Virginia, on June 10, 1830. He was brought to Texas in 1837 and ultimately to Harris County, where he was owned by J.J. Cain until emancipation in 1865. While a slave he earned … Read MoreRichard Allen [Texas] (1830-1909)
Rev. Peter Barrow moved his family from Mississippi to Spokane, Washington in 1889. Almost immediately upon arriving, he began to involve himself politically and religiously in the city’s early life. According to Union Army Pension Records, Barrow was born into slavery in 1840 near Petersburg, … Read MorePeter Barrow (1840-1906)
John Gibbs St. Clair Drake was an American anthropologist and sociologist and the founding Director of Stanford University’s African and African American Studies Department in 1968. Drake was born in Suffolk, Virginia on January 2, 1911. Drake’s father immigrated to the United States from the … Read MoreSt. Clair Drake (1911-1990)
Born on December 24, 1870 to formerly enslaved parents in St. Simons, Georgia, Robert Sengstacke Abbott attended Hampton Institute in Virginia and then went on to graduate from Kent Law School (now Chicago-Kent College of Law in Illinois) in 1899. In May 1905 he started … Read MoreRobert Sengstacke Abbott (1870-1940)
Leading 20th Century black historian Rayford Whittingham Logan was born on January 7, 1897 in Washington, D.C. to working class parents, Arthur C. and Martha Whittingham Logan. Rayford Logan spent his formative years in Washington, D.C. While in high school, he was taught by Carter … Read MoreRayford W. Logan (1897-1982)
WARREN, C.J., Opinion of the Court SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES ________________________________________ 388 U.S. 1 Loving v. Virginia APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA ________________________________________ No. 395 Argued: April 10, 1967 — Decided: June 12, 1967 ________________________________________ MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN … Read More(1967) Loving v. Virginia
April 3, 1950, Argued June 5, 1950, Decided MR. JUSTICE BURTON delivered the opinion of the Court. [1] The question here is whether the rules and practices of the Southern Railway Company, which divide each dining car so as to allot ten tables exclusively to … Read More(1950) Henderson v. United States Et. Al.
March 27, 1946, Argued June 3, 1946, Decided MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court. This appeal brings to this Court the question of the constitutionality of an act of Virginia, which requires all passenger motor vehicle carriers, both interstate and intrastate, to … Read More(1946) Morgan v. The Commonwealth of Virginia
