The Roots of Virginia Culture, The Past is Present,
41st Annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival,
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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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Described by poet Maya Angelou as the "queen of the arts," Elizabeth Catlett (born 1919) has created,...
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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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Born in slavery, Frederick Douglass escaped from bondage in 1838 and soon emerged as one of the...
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Contributed on May 09, 2007
By: Wendy_40871
In support of change and the demise of apartheid, IBM disinvested from South Africa in 1986. This memory is a personal account of this experience.
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