Mary Church Terrell Speech
Mary Eliza Church Terrell is considered a living connection between the age of the Declaration and the modern civil rights movement. She was born in Memphis in 1863 and was…
Mary Church Terrell Quotes
The same year the Declaration of Emancipation was signed; Mary Church Terrell was born and died two months after the decision of Brown v. Education Board. During those 90 years,…
Appalling and Disgraceful: How Does This Keep Happening
The video is extremely painful to watch. It’s even harder to hear the cries of Anjanette Young after Chicago Police bashed down her door and conducted a raid. An unsupervised…
Educational Inequality in America: Race and Gender
Education Inequality: Definition and Background Educational Inequality is about the disparity of access to educational resources between different social groups. Some examples of these resources include school funding, experienced and…
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Most democratic societies, ranging from ancient Greece and Rome to the emerging European democracies of the 18th century, had one thing in common – women were rarely, if ever, allowed…
A History Of Racial Inequality In The United States
Racial equality is the concept or ideology that individuals or groups of people have the same moral, political and legal rights and social value irrespective of their racial characteristics. It…
Fannie Lou Hamer – Life And Legacy
Early Life and Education Fannie Lou Hamer was born Fann Lou Townsend on 6th October 1917 to Ella and James Lee Townsend. Her parents were sharecroppers from Montgomery County, Mississippi…
The Life And Achievements Of Mary Church Terrell
Mary Church Terrell, born in 1863, was the daughter of Robert Reed Church and Louisa Ayers and had mixed racial ancestry. While both her parents were freed slaves, her father…
Women’s Rights Movements – The Activists That Made A Difference
Women today, in many parts of the world, can own property, wear what they want, vote or run for office and, in general, enjoy greater freedoms than any other time…
Organized Anti-Poverty Meeting With National Council Of Negro Women
On this day, June 27, 1967, Mrs. Hamer had organized a meeting with the National Council of Negro Women to fight poverty. The Office of Economic Opportunity, a federal program,…