Edelso Moret is an Afro Cuban, educator, administrator, activist, and interpreter guide. In this segment, he shares three Americans who inspired his community activism.
learn more*Elizabeth Waring was born on this date in 1895. She was a white-American philanthropist and activist. Elizabeth Amy Avery was born in Detroit, Michigan. Married twice, she was the wife of Wilson Mills (1915) and Henry Hoffman (1934), both wealthy businessmen. In those years, she and her first husband would often spend winters in South […]
learn more*Zilphia Horton was born on this date in 1910. She was a white-American musician, community organizer, educator, activist, and folklorist. Zilphia was born Zilphia Mae Johnson in the coal mining town of Spadra, Arkansas. She was the second child of Robert Guy Johnson and Ora Ermon Howard Johnson. Her father was superintendent of the local […]
learn more*Guy Carawan was born on this date in 1927. He was a white-American folk musician and musicologist. Guy Hughes Carawan Jr. was born in California to parents from the South. His mother, from Charleston, South Carolina, was the resident poet at Winthrop College (now Winthrop University) in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and his father, a […]
learn more*Lilian Wyckoff Johnson was born on this date in 1864. She was a white-American history teacher and an advocate for rural reform and American civil rights. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to John Cumming Johnson and Elizabeth Fisher. Both of her parents valued education and were strong proponents of community service. Her mother headed […]
learn more*Aimee Isgrig Horton’s birth is celebrated on this date in 1922. She was a white-American civil rights and education equality activist. At a very early age, Aimee Isgrig, from Wisconsin, exhibited an avid interest in social change. She and her brother attended a non-traditional lab school at a teacher’s college in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The instructors […]
learn more*The Highlander Folk School was initially established on this date in 1932. Built in Grundy County, Tennessee, on land donated by educator Lilian Wyckoff Johnson, the institution was established to provide educational opportunities for individuals experiencing poverty and working people in Appalachia. When Highlander was founded, the United States was in the midst of the […]
learn more*Bernice Robinson was born on this date in 1914. She was a Black beautician, an activist in the American Civil Rights Movement, and an advocate for education. Bernice Violanthe Robinson was from Charleston, South Carolina, to Martha Elizabeth (née Anderson) and James C. Robinson. Her mother was a seamstress, and her father was a bricklayer. […]
learn more*Shirley Broyard Williams was born on January 3, 1923. She was a Black social worker and housewife. From New Orleans, Louisiana, Shirley Broyard was the daughter of Paul Anatole Broyard, a carpenter and construction worker, and his wife, Edna Miller, neither of whom had finished elementary school. Broyard came from a Creole family; her brother was […]
learn more*The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) is affirmed on July 16, 1993. Incorporated as The National Black Chamber of Commerce, Inc., it is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian organization dedicated to the economic empowerment of African American communities. The NBCC is a very young national organization when compared to the NAACP and the Congress of […]
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