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Feb 25, 2017 · The award made her the first Black author to win the prestige prize. Brooks wrote several other works before passing away in 2000, "Maud Martha," "We Real Cool" and "Blacks.
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- Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) Congress is more diverse now than it's ever been. However, when Chisholm was attempting to shatter the glass ceiling, the same couldn't be said.
- Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) Dr. King is usually credited for the March on Washington in August 1963. But it was Rustin who organized and strategized in the shadows.
- Claudette Colvin (1939- ) Before Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, there was a brave 15-year-old who chose not to sit at the back of the bus.
- Annie Lee Cooper (1910-2010) The Selma, Alabama, native played a crucial part in the 1965 Selma Voting Rights Movement. But it wasn't until Oprah played her in the 2014 Oscar-nominated film Selma that people really took notice of Cooper's activism.
Jan 30, 2024 · In 2003, Oden made history again, becoming the first openly gay Black man elected mayor of an American city after running on a campaign slogan, “Time for Change.”
13 people who made a big impact on Black history in the U.S. and Houston. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- "Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as ...
Black history is the story of African Americans in the United States and elsewhere. Learn about Black History Month, Black leaders, the Great Migration, the civil rights movement and more.
Feb 25, 2021 · On Sept. 9, 1915, Dr. Woodson formed the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), an organization to promote the scientific study of Black life and history. (Today, the ...
Feb 1, 2021 · But this month we are focusing instead on 28 seminal Black figures – one for each day of February – who don’t often make the history books. Each transformed America in a profound way. Many ...
