In 1896, when Homer Plessy challenged the new racial caste system that forbade Blacks from sitting alongside whites on trains, the United States Supreme Court held that such "Jim Crow"
Dred Scott was born enslaved in Virginia circa 1800 and in the year 1830, moved along with his then master, Peter Blow, first to Alabama, and then to St. Louis,
59 years ago today, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, known by most across the globe as the Honorable Minister Malcolm X, was gunned down in New York s Audobon Ballroom by
During the early 1960 s, as the battle for Black civil rights raged at home, abroad, the Cold War that pitted the United States against the Soviet Union and her communist
Among Black families of historical note, few can compare to the Nabrit family in terms of breaking civil rights and educational barriers during their lives.