by HowardMikelle | Oct 27, 2009 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Tuskegee University, one of the largest historically black universities in the United States, is a private university located in Tuskegee, Alabama. It was founded by Lewis Adams, a former slave, and George W. Campbell, a former slave owner. Despite having no formal...
by LeichnerHelen | Oct 22, 2009 | African American History, People
Bennie G. Thompson, United States Representative from Mississippi’s Second Congressional District, is the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee and as such is one of the most influential African American members of Congress. Thompson was born in Bolton,...
by PopeDaniel | Oct 20, 2009 | African American History, Perspectives
On August 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act which ushered in the most sweeping changes in the welfare system since its adoption as part of the Social Security Act of 1935. In the following account, former...
by MiyamotoMelodyM | Oct 19, 2009 | African American History, Concepts
The Civil Rights Movement and investigative journalism combined in the early 1960s, inciting a nation to address the growing problem of poverty in America. A 1963 New York Times series on Appalachian poverty and Michael Harrington’s The Other America (1962) inspired...
by LeichnerHelen | Oct 19, 2009 | African American History, People
Lawyer, judge, and businessman Samuel Riley Pierce Jr. was the first African American partner in a major New York law firm, the first African American member of a Fortune 500 board, and one of the first African Americans to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. ...
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