“We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.”- Dorothy Height
Dorothy Irene Height was born in Richmond, Virginia, on March 24, ...
Posted Tuesday, February 12th 2008 at 2:06PM
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Mary Ellen Pleasant, referred to as the "mother of civil rights" in 1860s California, is a figure that isn't well-known in modern Black history, but was a famous abolitionist, entrepreneur, and social figure who saved countless lives helping slaves escape to freedom. It was actually Pleasant wh ...
Posted Monday, February 11th 2008 at 2:12PM
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault is a woman of distinguised “ firsts”. She holds a place in Georgia civil rights history as one of the first two African -American students admitted to the University of Georgia and she was the first African-American reporter for The New Yorker magazine .
Born on Feb ...
Posted Friday, February 1st 2008 at 11:55AM
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