The 1950s and 1960s saw hard earned gains in civil rights legislation. Despite enormous opposition from Deep South states, civil rights...

Many of the women profiled so far faced both racism and the added burden of sexism. Given the opportunity, women proved they could be...

Edward W. Brooke was born in 1919 to a middle-class family in Washington, D.C. His father was a lawyer, so the family’s income and...

When The U.S. Supreme Court struck down school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the impact was initially both...

If you grew up Black in the South during the Jim Crow era, it was virtually guaranteed that in addition to experiencing discrimination...

In 1955, a thirty-six year old single mother of six boarded a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. After she dropped her coins into the...

Fannie Lou Hamer was the youngest of twenty children, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1917. Even though Polio left her with a limp,...

An entire year could be spent profiling the hundreds of civil rights leaders who worked tirelessly for abolition, desegregation, and...

As a child born to a middle-class family in 1895, Charles Hamilton Houston already had advantages that most Black children could only...

We’d love to have a full month profiling courageous people who broke down barriers and succeeded against all odds. But what makes stories...