by MikellRobert | Apr 11, 2023 | African American History
Marietta Cooper Bryant was an Arizona educator and civil rights activist best known for fighting for her right to teach in integrated classrooms prior to the 1954 landmark Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Born Marietta Cooper on June 28,...
by QuinteroMaria | Feb 23, 2023 | African American History, People
Addie Fletcher Booth was an educator, civil rights activist, and labor organizer. She was born Addie De Vault on October 29, 1902 in Independence, Texas to Reuben and Anis Gee De Vault. Although very little is known of her early life, she enrolled in Prairie View...
by HillStephen | Jan 10, 2023 | African American History, People
Connie Tucker was a Black freedom struggle and an environmental justice (EJ) movement leader. She was also a political prisoner during the Black Power era. One of six siblings, she was born to Otis Spencer, Jr. and Bernice Nall on October 14, 1950, in Seale, Alabama....
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Feb 12, 2022 | African American History, Events
The “March Against Fear” began on June 5, 1966, and was initiated by civil rights activist James Meredith. Four years earlier he had become the first African American student to integrate the University of Mississippi by enrolling there in 1962. Meredith decided to...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Dec 27, 2021 | African American History, People
Historian, thespian, activist Georgette M. Norman was born on January 27, 1946, in Montgomery, Alabama, to George Maggie Norman, a real estate broker from Hope Hull, Alabama, and Juliet Graham Norman, who taught at W.B. Paterson Elementary School and was from...
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