January 6th, 2003, Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley passed away from heart failure. She was an educator turned activist, after her son Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly "inappropriately" interacting with White Woman. …
On Dec. 26, 1908, In Sydney, Australia, Jack Johnson became the first African American World Heavyweight champion beating Tommy Burns Jack Johnson in his quest to become the first black heavyweight champion wanted to fight Jim Jeffrie…
December 21st, 1956, Montgomery, Alabama, public buses were officially integrated. This happened following a successful boycott of city buses led by Martin Luther King Jr and the NAACP, it lasted 381 days. Sparked on December 1, 1955…
December 12, 1938, The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states providing college education to white students must provide in-state education to African Americans. The decision came after the University of Missouri refused admission to Lloyd Gaines on…
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, an event that shocked the world. A Civil Rights Leader, Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), His assassination led to a…
The 15th Amendment: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” The 15th amendment followed in …
The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenagers - The nine teenagers were Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell, Clarence Norris, Andrew and Leroy Wright, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Haywood Patterson and Eugene Williams, They were falsely accused of rapin…
The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 had passed some months earlier but had done very little in some parts of the Country to ensure African Americans of the basic right to vote. No place embodied this trend than more than Dallas County, Alabama, wh…
Black Panther Party was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966, originally their goal was to end police brutality in Oakland, but after SNCC member Stokeley Carmichael began calling for the uplift and self-determination of African-America…
Chicago in 1919 was a sprawling city that epitomized Americans new industrialism. It was the nations second largest city with over 2.7 million people. Immigrants from all parts of Europe transformed Chicago in a network of segregated neighborhood …