Stephanie Christensen
Stephanie Christensen is an undergraduate at the University of Washington majoring in History. She will graduate in June 2008, and plans on beginning law school in Fall 2008.
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The Great Migration (1915-1960)
The Great Migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915...
Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity)
Operation PUSH was founded by Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1971 to improve the economic status of African Americans in Chicago,...
Oscar W. Holden, Sr. (1886-1969)
Oscar Holden, often called the patriarch of Seattle jazz, was one of the earliest of Seattle, Washington’s influential jazz musicians....
Niagara Movement (1905-1909)
The Niagara Movement was a civil rights group organized by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter in 1905. After...
Eartha Mae Kitt (1928-2008)
Eartha Mae Kitt was born on January 26, 1928, in the city of North in South Carolina. Her sharecropper parents...
H. Ford Douglas (1831-1865)
Captain Hezekiah Ford Douglas was born in Virginia in 1831 to a white man named William Douglas, and an enslaved...
Tulsa Race Massacre (1921)
The Tulsa, Oklahoma Race Massacre was one of the worst urban racial conflicts in United States history. Two days of...
Juanita Millender-McDonald (1938-2007)
Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1938, Juanita Millender McDonald was an educator and member of the United States House of...
Rodney King (1965-2012)
Rodney King, a Los Angeles taxicab driver, became the catalyst for the second major urban uprising in the city in...
Women’s Political Council of Montgomery
The Women’s Political Council (WPC) of Montgomery, Alabama was founded in 1946 by scholar and Alabama State College professor Mary...
