Greensboro Sit-In
“Let’s all sit together, as human beings should.” Greensboro citizens The Greensboro Sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests against racial segregation, beginning on February 1, 1960 in a lunch…
“Let’s all sit together, as human beings should.” Greensboro citizens The Greensboro Sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests against racial segregation, beginning on February 1, 1960 in a lunch…
Freedom Summer, also known as the Mississippi Summer Project, was a voter registration drive held in 1964, where civil rights activists used peaceful means to increase the number of registered…
The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was crucial in bringing attention to the issue of racial inequality in housing. The struggles of underserved populations to obtain fair…
Background and Context The Great Migration was primarily driven by push and pull factors. Racial violence, systematic racism, and economic hardship were push forces in the South. African Americans had…
Brown v. Board of Education is a landmark case of paramount importance in American legal history. It revolutionized the fight against racial injustice by challenging the entrenched practice of racial…
Born on April 15, 1889, Asa Philip Randolph was an American labor leader, social activist, and socialist legislator. Randolph attempted to unite African American shipyard employees and elevator controllers, as…
Mary Church was one of the first Black women in the United States to receive a college degree, graduated from Oberlin College with a Bachelor’s degree in classics and master’s…
In the United States, slavery has been the official institution of human chattel enslavement, since its establishment in 1776 until the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in 1865, mostly by Africans…
African Americans today are pop culture icons, leaders, pioneers, inventors, entrepreneurs, doctors, and judges, and so much more. However, this wasn’t always possible. There was a time that personal and…
Racial and ethnic differences have been a recurring theme in many conflicts in different parts of the world. While it is the 21st century and the situation is, arguably, better…