by LenardPitts | Jul 29, 2021 | Children's Page
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This entry is for juvenile audiences. To see the full version of this entry, click here.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Who are they: In 1963, 200 African American youth protested segregation in downtown Americus, Georgia. Of the...
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by LenardPitts | Jul 29, 2021 | Children's Page
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This entry is for juvenile audiences. To see the full version of this entry, click here.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Who are they: Barbara Ann Posey was one of the most important youth leaders early in the campaign to desegregate...
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by jchbts | Jul 29, 2021 | Children's Page
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This entry is for juvenile audiences. To see the full version of this entry, click here.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Who are they: Charles Mitchell was born into slavery in 1847 on the Marengo Plantation in Maryland. He was born...
by FikesRobert | Jul 28, 2021 | African American History, People
George Washington Lee was an African American civil rights leader, minister, and entrepreneur. On May 7, 1955, Lee was murdered by white supremacists in Belzoni, Mississippi. Lee’s murder was one of two key events that occurred in Mississippi in 1955, along with the...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Jul 28, 2021 | African American History, People
Global marketer Frank Cooper, III was born on May 8, 1964, in San Francisco, California. He received the Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986 and the Juris Doctorate in Constitutional Law from...
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