Dr. King and wife Coretta, lead march in Selma, AL In early 1965, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) made Selma, Alabama, the focus of its efforts to register black voters in the South....

When most people think of Civil rights hero’s they automatically think of Martin Luther King, jr and Rosa Parks.  But as we all know, there are others who helped contribute to the Civil Rights movement. Accomplishments: When...

Mum Betts (Elizabeth Freeman) was born sometime in 1742 as a slave in Massachusetts. Mum Betts, who later changed her name to Elizabeth Freeman, is known for becoming the first African-American slave to sue her owners and...

Marian Anderson was born in 1897 in Philadelphia, PA.  and would later become one of the world’s greatest Contraltos of her time. Marian started singing at the age of six in her church choir.  Members of her...

Most people have never heard of Henrietta Lacks, however, she is one of the main reasons why a lot of us are here today.  It is because of Henrietta Lacks that many of our parents and grandparents...

Josephine played a major role in the introduction of the Jazz Age to Europe; she helped represent American culture at a time when Europeans thought America had no culture. Josephine worked as a Red Cross nurse and...

Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955,...