Segregation/Integration
Gloria Long Anderson (1938- )
Gloria Long Anderson is a Professor of Chemistry at Morris Brown College, where she serves as vice president of academic...
Pharoah Sanders (1940- )
Composer/ Improvisational Jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders was born on October 13, 1940, in Little Rock, Arkansas, as Farrell Sanders. An...
Prathia Hall Wynn (1940-2002)
Prathia Hall Wynn was a womanist, theologian, ethicist, and civil rights activist who has been credited with being a key...
Herman Perry (1922-1945)
Herman Perry was the target of the “Greatest Manhunt of World War II.” In fact, there is no comparable search...
The West End of Louisville (ca. 1835- )
The West End of Louisville, Kentucky emerged as a predominantly black neighborhood in the city during the 1830s when free...
Benjamin Ellery Murph (1908-1972)
Mississippi became the mecca of the Freedom Movement in the early 1960s due to local and out-of-state activists who formed...
Little Rock Crisis, 1957
In 1954, the United States Supreme Court declared public school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education. One year later, the Court reiterated...
555th Parachute Infantry Battalion [Triple Nickles] (1944-1947)
On August 6, 1945, Private First Class Malvin L. Brown was killed after falling 140 feet during a “let-down” from...
Emory Hestus Holmes (1924-1995)
Dr. Emory Hestus Holmes, World War II veteran, social scientist, professor, and California civil rights leader, was born on November...
