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Great Days in Harlem

The birth of the Harlem Renaissance by Beth Rowen & Borgna Brunner   Zora Neale Hurston, 1935 The orig. manuscript of Hughes's Ballad of Booker T. Related Links…

Major Race Riots in the U.S.

Read about some of the most significant riots in U.S. history 1898: Wilmington, North Carolina While Democrats held power at the state level in North Carolina, a coalition of white…

Blanche Bruce

Blanche Kelso Bruce, the son of a black slave and a white plantation owner, was the first African-American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate. Blanche Bruce was born into slavery in Virginia,…

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Historical BackgroundIn the aftermath of Reconstruction, which ended in 1877, the Southern State governments again became-as they remained in the North-“white man's governments.“ The new…

Alain LeRoy Locke

Writer and educator Alain LeRoy Locke was the editor of 1925's The New Negro, and he is sometimes called "the father of the Harlem Renaissance" for his influence on African-American art and…

Tavis Smiley

Name at birth: Tavis Roberts Tavis Smiley started hosting the late-night TV talk show Tavis Smiley on PBS in 2003, and the daily public radio show The Tavis Smiley Show on PRI in 2005. (His website…

Gordon Parks 2006 Deaths

Gordon ParksAge: 93 photographer and filmmaker who was a premier fashion photographer in the 1940s, working for Vogue and Glamour. Born into poverty, he became the first African American to…