In honor of Black History Month, we profile the woman who stood by Dr. Martin Luther King’s side during his reign, his wife Coretta Scott King, her achievements, and her dream. She was born and raised on the farm of her parents in Perry County, Alabama. She walked five miles a day to attend a […]
That Woolworth department store has now become the The International Civil Rights Center and Museum commemorating the efforts of the Greensboro Four who returned to the lunch counter the next day and sat, without being served, as they were heckled. Their powerful protest against segregation laws became a strategy used by others in cities throughout the South. It was months later, in July 1960 that the Woolworth stores began to serve blacks at an integrated lunch counter
That Woolworth department store has now become the The International Civil Rights Center and Museum commemorating the efforts of the Greensboro Four who returned to the lunch counter the next day and sat, without being served, as they were heckled. Their powerful protest against segregation laws became a strategy used by others in cities throughout the South. It was months later, in July 1960 that the Woolworth stores began to serve blacks at an integrated lunch counter
On July 2, 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. See his remarks on this historic day here.
On July 2, 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. See his remarks on this historic day here.
On October 1, 1962 James Meredith became the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. See the historical footage from this day here.
On October 1, 1962 James Meredith became the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. See the historical footage from this day here.
Rosa Parks was a modest seamstress on her way home from work when she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. That single act of defiance on December 1st 1955 is remembered as the start of the civil rights movement and she is respectfully remembered as the mother of the civil rights movement
Rosa Parks was a modest seamstress on her way home from work when she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. That single act of defiance on December 1st 1955 is remembered as the start of the civil rights movement and she is respectfully remembered as the mother of the civil rights movement
Remember Rodge from "What's Happening", and Thelma from Good Times? Well here is a gallery that pays tribute to those lost but not forgotten African American TV Sitcoms.
Remember Rodge from "What's Happening", and Thelma from Good Times? Well here is a gallery that pays tribute to those lost but not forgotten African American TV Sitcoms.
Black music is in fact America's original music, and the Spirituals-Blues-Jazz-Gospel-Charleston-Twist-HipHop gift is the foundation not only of rhythm and blues but also of Broadway and The Grammys. Check out three of the most major moments in Black Music History.