Born in Brooklyn, NY, on June 30, 1917, Horne was a trailblazer in Hollywood for women of color and used her fame to inspire Americans as a dedicated activist for civil rights. Horne began her career as a dancer at Harlem’s Cotton Club and later became a featured vocalist with touring...
Lena Horne: Dazzling singer and noted civil rights activistMcCoy, Lezlie B
As Gerald Horne notes in his chapter, "Race from Power," it is not possible "to understand U.S. foreign policy during the past century without contemplating the race and racism, or understand the ebb and flow of race and racism . . . without contemplating the global context" (p. 45)....
Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He did this by using nonviolent resistance and activism, inspired by his Christian beliefs...
G Horne - 《Michigan Historical Review》 被引量: 0发表: 2023年 The Legacy of Civil Rights and the Opportunity for Transactional Law Clinics At the end of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously paraphrased abolitionist and Unitarian mi...
Kennedy called on Baldwin to gather civil rights leaders to discuss rising racial tensions: Clockwise from top left: James Baldwin, Lena Horne, Lorraine Hansberry, and Jerome Smith. The first reaction was polite and tepid. Bobby assumed his audience was naive about the rawboned world of politics...
Lena Horne was an American singer and actress who first came to fame in the 1940s. Horne left school at age 16 to help support her ailing mother and became a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City. In two years at the Cotton Club she appeared