Black Wall Street Destroyed

Black Wall Street Destroyed

When white supremacists were not successful in eliminating the individual progress of “uppity blacks,” they resorted to destroying whole communities to return “white supremacy” to the South. One of the most affluent black communities affected by this tactic was an...
176 Year History of Party Platforms

176 Year History of Party Platforms

A party platform is a document that contains principal goals of the two major parties that comes out every four years before the presidential election and contains the party’s beliefs, values, and political positions. Party platforms are the blueprints for what guides...
Robert S. Abbott: The Chicago Defender

Robert S. Abbott: The Chicago Defender

Robert Sengstacke Abbott (1870 – 1940) was born of freeman parents and was given his middle name by his stepfather at the age of one. Abbott studied at Claflin University, Hampton Institute, and Kent Law School. He received his law degree in 1899, but could not find...
Junius G. Groves: Potato King of the World

Junius G. Groves: Potato King of the World

Junius G. Groves (1859 – 1925) was perhaps the most successful black farmer and is referred to as the “potato king of the world.” Groves was born a slave in Green County, Kentucky in 1859. He was made free by the proclamation of Abraham Lincoln. In 1879, he was...