*The Brotherhood of Liberty was formed on this date in 1885. Known as Mutual United Brotherhood of Liberty, it was in Baltimore, Maryland, that the organization sought to remove social injustices and protect the civil rights of Blacks against the structures of the Jim Crow Era. The Brotherhood of Liberty used legal means to protect […]
learn more*Nadine Winter was born on this date in 1924. She was a Black community activist and politician. Nadine P. Winter was born Nadine Kinnion Poole in New Bern, North Carolina. She was one of five children of a brick mason and a high-school dietician. At an early age, she was a community activist and helped […]
learn more*On this date in 1984, we celebrate the founding of the National Congress of Black Women, Inc. (NCBW). NCBW is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the educational, political, economic, and cultural development of African American women and their families. The NCBW founding chairs were Shirley Chisholm and Dr. C. Delores Tucker. Other notable NCBW […]
learn moreDr. Rosilyn Carroll is a professor, education administrator, minister, and author. In this segment, she shares a few of her favorite books and three words that best describe her.
learn more*Windrush Square was dedicated on this date in 1998. Often referred to as Brixton Oval, it is an open public space in the center of Brixton, South London. It honors Britain’s Windrush generation and occupies an area in front of the Brixton Tate Library. After changing its name to Tate Gardens, it has its current […]
learn more*Hallie Almena Lomax was born on July 23, 1915. She was a Black journalist and activist. Hallie Almena Davis was born in Galveston, Texas. Her parents, Clifford and Geneva Davis, moved the family to Chicago and Los Angeles, where she graduated from Jordan High School in the Watts neighborhood. She briefly studied journalism at Los […]
learn more*Erna P. Harris was born on this date in 1908. She was a Black journalist, businesswoman, and activist. Erna Prather Harris was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, to Frances A. “Frankie” and James E. Harris. Her father was a postman. As an admirer of Mahatma Gandhi, he influenced his daughter’s later activism. Unlike most men in […]
learn more*The Dawn settlement was formed on this date in 1842. Often called Dawn, this was a Canadian refuge community and a place of work for former American slaves. Josiah Henson and Hiram Wilson formed it with 200 acres of property purchased. Henson also purchased an additional 200 acres of land adjacent to the community, later […]
learn more*Hiram Wilson was born on this date in 1803. He was a white-American anti-slavery abolitionist. Hiram Wilson, the son of Polly McCoy and John Wilson, was born in Acworth, New Hampshire. He attended the Oneida Institute in upstate New York, which was at that time the most abolitionist school in the country. He attended a […]
learn more*This date in 1817 is celebrated as the birth date of Henrietta Duterte. She was a Black funeral homeowner, philanthropist, and abolitionist. Henrietta Bowers was born to an affluent, free Black family and raised on Middle Alley, now called Panama Street, in Philadelphia’s Society Hill. Known for her fashionable attire, she began her career as […]
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