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IKE Fought Southern Democratic Segregation
IKE with John H. Sengstake Dwight D. Eisenhower, elected in 1952, was mindful of the southern Democratic congressional commitment to racial segregation, but he was...
School Desegregation Took 18 Years
During the Eisenhower Administration, landmark events shaped the Civil Rights Movement in the 20th Century. Eight years after the 1954 unanimous ruling of Brown v. Board of...
First Black American Car Dealer
Homer B. Roberts was a WWI veteran and an electrical engineer. Not only was he the first black American car dealer but was also one of the first black retailing giants. He...
Black Mariners in Whaling Industry
Did you know that blacks served among crews on whaling ships before the American Revolution? Did you know that Crispus Attucks spent 20 years as a whaler before he was the...
Jim Crow in the Saddle
In the early 19th Century, Southern Thoroughbred breeders relied on slaves to care for, ride and train horses. After Emancipation slaves remained on the farms and it was...
First Black Auto Manufacturer
Frederick Postell Patterson was the first manufacturer, owner, and operator of Greenfield-Patterson Automobile Company. His first car debuted in 1915, built-in Ohio,the car...
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...
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...
Victor Young: Lamborghini Merchant & Media Mogul
Last year a presentation was made to an after-school tutoring program for middle school students that shared the story of Victor Young, a Lamborghini merchant and media...
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