by RoyLisa | Jul 26, 2010 | African American History, Speeches
On February 13, 1965, Malcolm X’s home in New York City was bombed. He and his family were not hurt and he decided to keep a longstanding speaking commitment at Detroit, Michigan, arriving the next day to give the presentation below. This proved to be one of...
by FateMichael | Jul 26, 2010 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
The Blackstone Rangers are a street gang formed in the late 1950s on Blackstone Street on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. The Blackstone Rangers were founded by two teenagers, Jeff Fort and Eugene Hairston, while they were at the Illinois School for Boys in St....
by RoyLisa | Jul 26, 2010 | African American History, Speeches
In September 1957 Arkansas Democratic Governor Orval E. Faubus became the national symbol of racial segregation when he used Arkansas National Guardsmen to block the enrollment of nine black students who had been ordered by a federal judge to desegregate Little...
by RoyLisa | Jul 26, 2010 | African American History, Speeches
Thaddeus Stevens was one of the most influential congressmen in the U.S. House of Representatives in the late 1860s. Considered a leader of the Radical Republicans, he was an early advocate of full civil rights for African Americans. In 1867 he gave a brief address...
by PartinElliot | Jul 26, 2010 | Global African History, People
Born in Africa and enslaved in America, Thomas Peters is best known for his influence in settling Canadian blacks in the African colony of Sierra Leone. The earliest documentation of Peters’ life is as a 38-year-old slave in North Carolina. When the Revolutionary War...
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