*Jimmy Carter was born on this date in 1924. He was a white-American politician and humanitarian. James Earl Carter Jr. was born and raised in Plains, Georgia. As a child, Carter’s family moved several times, settling on a dirt road near Archery, GA. This community was made up of underprivileged Black families. He had three […]
learn more*Addai-Sebo’s birth is celebrated on this date in 1950. He is a Ghanaian analyst, journalist, and pan-African activist. Born and raised in Ghana, Akyaaba Addai-Sebo was part of Kwame Nkrumah’s Young Pioneers Movement. His education took him to the United States in the 1970s, where he was active when “Negro History Week” became Black History […]
learn more*Ruby Sales was born on this date in 1948. She is a Black social justice activist, scholar, and public theologian. Born Ruby Nell in Jemison, Alabama, she attended locally segregated Carver High School and was educated in the community during the American Civil Rights Movement. After graduating high school, Sales attended Tuskegee Institute, where she […]
learn more*Gloria Randle Scott was born on April 14, 1938. She is a Black educator and youth administrator. Gloria Dean was born and raised in Houston, Texas; in 1959, she became the first African American to receive a degree in zoology from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Higher Education in 1965. Dean was president of […]
learn more*Raymond Hewitt was born on January 1, 1941. He was a teacher and Black Panther activist. Raymond “Masai” Hewitt worked as a schoolteacher and was a Marxist activist, working with the United Front, a socialist organization. He joined the Black Panther Party in 1967 and was its Minister of Education. The Panthers considered Hewitt a […]
learn more*Richard Lapchick was born on this date in 1945. He is a white-American educator, human rights activist, sportswriter, and author. Richard E. Lapchick is from Yonkers, New York, and he is the son of Joe Lapchick, a college and professional basketball coach who helped integrate the NBA when he signed Nat Clifton in 1950. […]
learn more*Janabelle Taylor was born on December 3, 1920. She was a Black administrator and social worker. Born Janabelle Murphy in St. Paul, Minnesota, Murphy was the oldest of three children. She attended local schools, graduating from Central High School in 1939, and then moved on to the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1944 with a […]
learn more*David Richmond was born on this date in 1941. He was a Black counselor and activist. David Leinail Richmond was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, graduating from James B. Dudley High School in 1959. At DHS, Richmond was a popular student, participating in many sports and clubs; he even set the state record for the […]
learn more*The Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) was founded on September 10, 1894. UDC is an American neo-Confederate hereditary association for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers. Established in Nashville, Tennessee, the group venerated the Ku Klux Klan during the Jim Crow era. In 1896, the organization established the Children of the Confederacy to impart […]
learn more*Carrie Fortune’s birth is celebrated on December 2, 1860. She was a Black clubwoman, seamstress, and community activist. Born in Florida, Caroline Charlotte “Carrie” Smiley Fortune was the daughter of white plantation owner John Smiley and his mistress, an Indigenous Seminole woman. At about 16, Carrie Smiley accepted the offer to relocate to Sag Harbor […]
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