by HarrisTrudier | Apr 2, 2016 | African American History, People
Buck Franklin was an attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who is most notably known for defending the survivors of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. He was also the father of the venerable civil rights advocate and historian John Hope Franklin. Franklin was born the seventh of ten...
by PharrGwendolyn | Mar 20, 2016 | African American History, Events
The Knoxville Race Riot in Knoxville, Tennessee, was one of several race riots that took place in the “Red Summer” of 1919. The so-called “Red Summer” of 1919 was a series of violent riots, predominantly whites against blacks, which lasted from May until October of...
by CotkinGeorge | Mar 19, 2016 | African American History, Events
The race riot of Charleston, South Carolina in 1919 was a part of a series of race riots that year, known as the “Red Summer.” The migration of blacks out of the south, the end of World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the illness and near incapacity of...
by OtisGingerAdams | Nov 19, 2013 | African American History, Events
After the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, open skirmishes took place between Southern slave catchers and Northern abolitionists who despised slavery and what they saw as its encroachments on the liberty and freedom of residents of the free states. Armed...
by SingerHazel | Mar 8, 2012 | Global African History, People
Peter Magubane was a South African photojournalist best known for his photos that exposed that nation’s Apartheid injustice and humanitarian crisis to the west. He was born outside Johannesburg, in Vrededorp, on January, 18, 1932, and grew up in Sophiatown....
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