The Nobel Peace Prize winner championed human rights and racial justice.
Black History
Honoring the lives of Black people who have been making history all around us every day.
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She started a one-woman Montgomery bus boycott six months before Rosa Parks’s historic st.
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Greenfield published her first children’s book, “Bubbles,” in 1972.
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Moses worked to register Black voters in the South in the 1960s.
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Gloria Richardson was a civil rights activist known for her role in intense protests in early-1960s Cambridge, Maryland. Died: July 15, 2021 (Who else died on July 15?) Details of death: Died …
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He was the last known living Black veteran of D-Day.
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He was also the first Black officer to command a U.S. warship in combat.
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Hundreds of families have named Juneteenth in a loved one’s obituary as one of their most cherished memories.
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She sparked a movement when she refused to yield her seat on the bus.
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He was the longest serving current member of the House.