by NegassaSemhar | Dec 16, 2007 | African American History
Era Bell Thompson was an author, editor and a pioneering female African American journalist. She was born in Des Moines, Iowa. When she was eight years old her family moved to North Dakota. Her father worked various jobs including farmer, messenger to the governor...
by MolsonJeannette | Dec 16, 2007 | African American History, People
Image Ownership: Public Domain The third of ten children, Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi on September 13, 1964, to Joyce Marie and Emory G. Smiley. At the age of two, he and his family moved to Indiana when his father, an Air Force non-commissioned officer,...
by EguKenChiedozie | Dec 16, 2007 | African American History, People
Glenn C. Loury was the first African American Professor to earn tenure at Harvard. He also achieved prominence as a public intellectual, first as a conservative and then as a more liberal commentator. Born in 1948, Loury grew up on Chicago, Illinois’ South Side. ...
by EguKenChiedozie | Dec 16, 2007 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
The Congress of Racial Equality pioneered direct nonviolent action in the 1940s before playing a major part in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Founded by an interracial group of pacifists at the University of Chicago in 1942, CORE used nonviolent...
by WashingtonGuyM | Dec 16, 2007 | African American History, People
Victoria Earle Smith was an accomplished journalist, author, lecturer, clubwoman, social worker, and missionary. She was born on May 27, 1861 in Fort Valley, Georgia, to Caroline Smith, a slave, and a man who was believed to be the family’s master. Caroline fled the...
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