by RoyLisa | Nov 21, 2011 | African American History, Speeches
On February 4, 1875, Congressman James T. Rapier of Alabama, rose on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to support the Civil Right bill then before Congress which when enacted later that year became the Civil Rights Act of 1875. His speech appears below....
by RoyLisa | Nov 21, 2011 | African American History, Primary Documents
No. 645 Argued: April 1-2, 1968 — Decided: June 17, 1968 392 U.S. 409 MR JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. In this case, we are called upon to determine the scope and the constitutionality of an Act of Congress, 42 U.S.C. § 1982 which provides...
by RoyLisa | Nov 21, 2011 | African American History, Speeches
On August 15, 1883, Alexander Crummell, founder of the Union of Black Episcopalians and the American Negro Academy and a graduate of Oxford University in England, gave the address below to the Freedman’s Aid Society at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ocean...
by RoyLisa | Nov 21, 2011 | African American History, Speeches
Image Ownership: Public Domain Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, the son of a white Mississippi planter and a former slave, was the first African American to serve as governor of a state when after the governor of Louisiana was impeached, he as Lt. Governor completed...
by YaredEphrem | Nov 21, 2011 | African American History, People
Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West was born on June 2, 1907 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the only child of Rachel Pease Benson and Isaac Christopher West. Isaac West was a former slave from Virginia whose small-business success afforded his daughter a...
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