by RoyLisa | Jul 26, 2010 | Global African History, Speeches
In 1993 South African political activist Nelson Mandela shared the annual Nobel Peace Prize with South African President F.W. de Klerk. Mandela’s Nobel Peace Prize address on December 10, 1993 in Oslo, Norway appears below. Your Majesty the King, Your Royal...
by RoyLisa | Jul 26, 2010 | African American History, Speeches
In 1906, one year after the Niagara Movement was founded, it held its second annual meeting at Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia. W.E.B. Du Bois, a founding member and its titular leader, gave the address below to the assembled civil rights activists. The men of...
by HudsonRob | Jul 25, 2010 | African American History, Perspectives
Mildred Loving always insisted she was no civil rights pioneer, but Loving. v. Virginia, the 1967 Supreme Court case that bears her name, established the legal right to interracial marriage across the United States. In memory of Mildred Loving, who died on May 2,...
by Walton-RajiAngela | Jul 23, 2010 | African American History, People
Leonard Reed, a noted dancer and entertainment businessman, co-created the famous Shim Sham Shimmy tap routine that has been replicated for centuries by tappers the world over. He was also associated with Joe Louis during the heavyweight boxer’s efforts to break down...
by RoyLisa | Jul 13, 2010 | African American History, Speeches
Beginning in 1892 with the destruction of her newspaper, the Memphis Free Speech, Ida B. Wells for the next forty years was the most prominent opponent of lynching in the United States. What follows is a speech she made to a Chicago audience on the subject in January...
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