This Day in History – July 2, 1964 – President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act
President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act
President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act
Facing racism and segregation in their own country, the Harlem Hellfighters became one of the most decorated American combat units serving in World War I. Read more moRead Black Heroes Throughout US Military History Meet the standout soldiers, spies and homefront…
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This article is a part of Blavity U Spirit Week 2023. The letters and symbols of Black sororities and fraternities have recently been the focus of several headlines. As Blavity reported, in September, a white substitute teacher went viral for wearing a jacket embroidered with the…
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Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc. Fraternal Luncheon – September 30, 2023 Jackson, Ms. OH, WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS —- TO BE HERE IN THE HOUSE WITH MY GOOD ALPHA BROTHERS ONE MORE TIME!!!!!! AND WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS FOR…
Racial violence flares Racial violence flares aboard U.S. Navy ships on October 12, 1972. Forty-six sailors are injured in a race riot involving more than 100 sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk en route to her station in the…
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Chief Justice Earl Warren swears in Thurgood Marshall, the first Black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. As chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1940s and ’50s, Marshall was the architect and executor of the…
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