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Annapolis officials and civil rights leaders are expected to unveil a memorial to Parren J. Mitchell, Maryland’s first African-American congressman, in May. The Annapolis City Council introduced ...
In addition to featuring the history of slavery, Reconstruction and Civil Rights, the permanent collection includes an exhibit of African American music from the arrival of the first Africans to ...
A booking photo of American civil rights activist ... to build coalitions with African and non-Muslim Black leaders around the globe. He advocated for human rights on the world stage and began ...
Two Chicago civil rights legends, former Mayor Harold Washington and activist Asa Philip Randolph, were honored on their shared birthday.
A student is showcasing the various African American musicians who visited ... exchange that happened in Newcastle during the civil rights era," she said. The exhibition is part of the 22-year ...
The FBI has moved to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the EPA under the Biden ...
(1991). African Americans & the Quest for Civil Rights, 1900-1990. New York: New York University Press. Collier-Thomas, Bettye, and Franklin, V.P. (Eds.). (2001). Sisters in the Struggle: African ...
To gain deeper insight, Moore, along with the project’s USCT Ancestry Committee and Virginia Tech students, collaborated with the National Archives and the African American Civil War Museum in ...
The passionate man labeled as the “most influential African American of the nineteenth ... Not until the civil rights movement of the 1970s, Bernard Demczuk says, did Unionville’s relationship ...
Following in her footsteps were the women who made a difference in our city by taking the lead during the Civil Rights Movement ... in 1971 was the first African American elected to the Memphis ...