Contributed on May 09, 2007
By: Adrienne_55843
A Snippet of Life in the Segregated South and Trailblazing Black Nurses
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Civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979) waged a lifelong battle for the economic...
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Contributed on May 07, 2007
By: Faried_88778
I found great inspiration in the lessons from Booker T Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. There were numerous others but growing up these were the people that helped to shape my thoughts.
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Contributed on May 07, 2007
By: Rick_28373
In October 1962, my parents filed a federal law suit against the State of Virginia to win admission for my oldest sister, Hazel Ruth Adams Hairston, into the Patrick Henry Community College Campus of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
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Harry Belafonte (born 1927) created a sensation in the 1950s when he introduced Americans to the...
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Contributed on May 11, 2007
By: Lonnie_12320
Lonnie reminisces about the words of Nelson Mandela.
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Linked article: Martin Luther King, Jr., with Coretta Scott King, Yolanda Denise King
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Contributed on July 23, 2007
By: wganderso
How we as a black couple broke through the glass ceiling of prejudice by stepping out on the glass floor.
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Lorraine Hansberry never finished several early attempts at playwriting. In 1956, however, she began...
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