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Kwame Ture was born June 29, 1941, He was a civil rights activist and originator of the slogan, “Black power.”
Kwame Ture was born June 29, 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, He was a civil rights activist, leader of Black nationalism in the United States in the 1960s and originator of the slogan, “Black power.” Stokely Carmichael immigrated to Ne…
April 15th 1889, Asa Philip Randolph was born. He was civil rights activist. who founded the first Black labor union, helped organized to end segregation in defense industries and the U.S. armed forces. Randolph was instrumental in organizing of t…
April 12, 1975, Josephine Baker died, She was a American-born French entertainer and civil rights activist.
Josephine Baker died 12 April, 1975. She was a American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist. Baker became wildly popular during the 1920s and her career symbolized the beauty and vitality of Black American's…
March 10 1913, Harriett Tubman died
March 10 1913, Harriett Tubman passed away. Harriet Tubman was an escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, she was also a nurse, and Union spy. Harriett Tubman is one of the most recognizable Black w…
On March 6, 1857, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Black people were not American citizens and could not sue in courts of law. The Court ruled against Dred Scott, an enslaved Black man who tried to sue for his freedom…
March 3, 1968, The FBI sent a memorandum setting goals for COINTELPRO against Black Nationalist groups.
March 3, 1968, The FBI sent a memorandum to their field offices with a set goals for a their counterintelligence program "COINTELPRO" against African American Nationalist groups. The goal was to block attempts to coalesce, grow and ex…
March 2, 1955. Claudette Colvin was arrested for challenging segregation in Montgomery
March 2, 1955. Claudette Colvin was arrested for challenging segregation on the Montgomery bus line, the act preceded Rosa Parks' by nine months. Claudette Colvin and her classmates were let out from school early, They would take the …
February 23, 1868, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was a sociologist, historian, civil rights activist author, editor of the Crisis magazine and one of the founders of the NAACP. Du Boi…
February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated in the Audubon Ballroom. He was a Muslim minister, activist, and key member of the civil rights movement. Malcolm was a prolific orator, with a charismatic personality. He expressed the an…
February 17, 1942 Huey Percy Newton was born.
Huey P. Newton was the cofounder of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. The Black Panther Party at its height in 1969 had around 10,000 members but accurate numbers impossible to prove. The Black Panther Party was created 19…
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