by BastienEliot | Oct 17, 2015 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
“Image Ownership: Mike Siegel” From the 1960s to the 1980s, Seattle, Washington public school pupils and their parents, as well as the school board and the courts, were involved in a series of contentious and highly controversial attempts to desegregate...
by BastienEliot | Oct 17, 2015 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
In the late 1970s after two decades of school desegregation efforts in Seattle, Washington, school administrators and parents of black children began to notice that average academic test scores for African American students began to lag behind those of white and Asian...
by McClendonIIIJohnH | Oct 13, 2015 | African American History
Image Courtesy of UCSF Archives and Special Collections Medical professor and civil rights leader Thomas Nathaniel Burbridge was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on July 12, 1921. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, in...
by PhillipsChieko | Oct 13, 2015 | African American History, People
Florence V. Lucas, lawyer, politician, NAACP leader, and songwriter, was born in 1916 in New York City, New York. She graduated from John Adams High School, Hunter College, and Brooklyn Law School. After graduating from law school in 1940, she became the first black...
by SgambelluriSabrianna | Oct 13, 2015 | African American History, People
Charles Harrison was one of the most prolific industrial designers of the twentieth century. One of only a handful of early African American industrial designers, he specialized in creating a variety of practical household goods emphasizing form and function....
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