Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, an event that shocked the world. A Civil Rights Leader, Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), His assassination led to a…

The 15th Amendment: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” The 15th amendment followed in …

The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenagers - The nine teenagers were Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell, Clarence Norris, Andrew and Leroy Wright, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Haywood Patterson and Eugene Williams, They were falsely accused of rapin…

The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 had passed some months earlier but had done very little in some parts of the Country to ensure African Americans of the basic right to vote. No place embodied this trend than more than Dallas County, Alabama, wh…

Black Panther Party was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966, originally their goal was to end police brutality in Oakland, but after SNCC member Stokeley Carmichael began calling for the uplift and self-determination of African-America…

Chicago in 1919 was a sprawling city that epitomized Americans new industrialism. It was the nations second largest city with over 2.7 million people. Immigrants from all parts of Europe transformed Chicago in a network of segregated neighborhood …

    Ma Rainey a singer who was recognized as one of the first great blues vocalist. Born Gertrude Pridgett, she was born in Russell County, Alabama or Columbus, Georgia, in either 1886 or 1882, one of three children of Thomas and E…

The war effort during World War 1 led to increase demand for industrial products made in the North but without the European immigrants they had been using, this left many industries without an adequate supply of unskilled workers. This lead to manuf…

The Black Renaissance was a cultural movement with the Harlem Renaissance being a centerpiece of that movement. The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a black cultural mecca in the early 20th Centur…