by Sandra | Mar 16, 2019 | Black Leaders
Fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin was an active member of the local NAACP Youth Council lead by Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama. On March 2, 1955, Colvin tested the cities’ segregated busing ordinance by refusing to give up her seat to a white rider. She was...
by Sandra | Mar 6, 2019 | Black Leaders, Education
Eric Foner compiled an excellent reference book, Freedom’s Lawmakers, that contains collective biographies of more than 1500 black Reconstruction lawmakers. Democratic ex-Confederate leaders painted blacks as lazy, ignorant, incompetent buffoons, to undermine their...
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