Ella Baker began her involvement with the NAACP in 1940. She worked as a field secretary and then served as director of branches from 1943 until 1946. In 1957, Baker moved to Atlanta to help organize Martin Luther King’s new organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). She also ran a voter registration campaign called …
Amelia Boynton was born on August 18, 1911, in Savannah, Georgia. Her early activism included holding black voter registration drives in Selma, Alabama, from the 1930s through the ’50s. In 1964, she became both the first African-American woman and the first female Democratic candidate to run for a seat in Congress from Alabama. That same …
Mildred Loving was a Civil Rights activist in the 1960s. She and her husband successfully defeated Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage. Mildred Delores Jeter was born on July 22, 1939, in Central Point, Virginia. The shy, somewhat soft-spoken woman became a reluctant activist in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s when she and her …
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Washington (AFP) – The US Navy has promoted a woman to the rank of a four-star admiral for the first time in its 238-year history, a milestone for females in the American military. In a ceremony on Tuesday, Michelle Howard was promoted to vice chief of naval operations, the number two job in the service, …
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Today, we celebrate 25 years since filmmaker, Spike Lee, released the iconic urban classic, “Do The Right Thing”. This is one my top 5 favorite movies EVER!!! When Spike throws the trash can in the window!!!! LOL, my favorite part of all time, “Radioooooooo!!!” What’s yours?
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