During the early 20th century, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its African American community known as the Greenwood District. It was home to a thriving business district and surrounding residential area that earned it t…
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Educatio…
Juneteenth is annual holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States, its a mix of June and Nineteenth, Originating in Galveston, Texas, it is now celebrated annually on June 19 throu…
Emmett Louis Till, was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his ki…
Claudette Colvin is an pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
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Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist and recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus, December 1955, triggered a…
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama in protest of bus segregation laws. The boycott is regarded as the first large-scale demo…
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was a Civil rights org, established by the Dr Martin Luther King, Jr in 1957 to assist and coordinate with local organizations in their fight for full equality of African Amer…
Following the 1954 Brown ruling,, Southerners responded angrily soon a Massive Resistance campaign began an attempt to block integration at every level of government.
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The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine Black students who enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957 in an attempt to challenge the segregation after Brown vs Board of Education
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Ruby Bridges was a 6 year old African-American child, who desegregated the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1960.
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On February, 1, 1960, Four Black college students that sat at a "whites only" Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and sparked a movement that would spread to towns throughout the South and forced Woolworth…
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the principal method for student involvement in the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the sit-ins movement at segregated lunch counters in Greensb…
Freedom Riders were a group of activists who rode interstate buses to challenge the enforcement of two Supreme Court decisions, which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
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Medgar Evers was Civil rights activist and the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. When he was assassinated outside of his Mississippi home in 1963.
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As Black GIs were stationed in South Korea during the Korean War, they were able to introduce the Korean people to American Fried Chicken.
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Oregon once had a set of laws in place that legally prohibited African Americans from entering the state. Although these laws were not actively enforced, they were incredibly effective in preventing Black people from settlin…
Why Don't Black Folks eat Pumpkin Pie? How did we start eating Sweet Potato Pie? Join us while we detail the answer to this puzzling questions.
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The short stories of the displacment of African Americans of three communities; Seneca Village, Mill Creek Valley and Bruce's Beach.
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Did you know that Coke heavily influenced by racism and marketed to premaitly to whites, while Pepsi established a division dedicated to targeting African American customers?
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Why Do Black Folks love Congac? The story once again dates back to Black GIs and the World Wars.
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How are watermelons racist, doesn't everyone enjoy watermelons, Secondly, we have the short story of DeeDee Chandler the man who gave birth to the modern Drum set
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Why are so many black voters democrats, is their a historical reason behind this? Listen and enjoy while I explain the series of events that led to Black folks being democrats.
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Why Do Black Folks love Cadillacs? When Cadillac was at their worse they turned to affluent African Americans for help, Listen and enjoy while I explain the series of events that led to Black folks being fans of Cadillacs.
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