Exhibit honors civil rights activists African-American leaders spanning more than 30 years recognized at Oakland museumChauncey Bailey, STAFF WRITER
Like King, many ostensibly “nonviolent” civil rights activists embraced their constitutional right to self protection—yet this crucial dimension of the Afro-American freedom struggle has been long ignored by history. In This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb...
A riveting biopic that delves into the life and legacy of one of America's most influential civil rights activists. We witness his transformation from a street hustler to a powerful advocate for racial equality who shook the foundations of a segregated society. The film serves as an enduring...
A riveting biopic that delves into the life and legacy of one of America's most influential civil rights activists. We witness his transformation from a street hustler to a powerful advocate for racial equality who shook the foundations of a segregated society. The film serves as an endurin...
Winner of 2020 Caldecott Medal,The Undefeatedis a poem to black America, to everyday people, dreamers, the greatest artists, athletes, musicians, Civil Rights activists, to those who survived, and those who didn’t, and to the endurance and spirit of past and present. (Picture book) ...
(View additional history at the Alabama African-American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortiumhere) 5 Safe House Black History Museum On the night of March 21, 1968, the Burroughs family of Civil Rights activists gave refuge to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in this small, shotgun-style house ...
African American (redirected fromAfrican-americans) Thesaurus Medical African American alsoAf·ri·can-A·mer·i·can(ăf′rĭ-kən-ə-mĕr′ĭ-kən) n. A black American of African ancestry. Af′ri·can-A·mer′i·canadj. ...
How African-American gay activists in the rural south found community support Studies published in 1990 in the JofA by Bert Mitchell, the chairman and founder of Mitchell & Titus, LLP, the largest minority-controlled firm in the United States, identified only 150 African-Americans among 100,000...
During the celebration of Juneteenth in the African American Cultural Garden there was an historic unveiling and dedication of an Ohio Historical Marker along the Cleveland Civil Rights Trail. See photos and video of the dedication and unveiling ...
Anti-apartheid activists set out to discourage artist exchanges in the belief that they had no effect on apartheid, degraded the artist involved, and lent credibility to the South African regime. Through adverse publicity and boycott, many U.S. entertainers were pressured into avoiding South Africa...