Civil Rights -Activist – Labor
Vere Bird (1910-1999)
Vere Cornwall Bird, the first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, is a national hero of this Caribbean nation. Vere...
Willie Jones (1994- )
Country baritone singer, lyricist, actor, activist, freestyle rapper was born on September 23, 1994, in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Michael and...
Rory Gamble (1955- )
Rory Gamble is the first Black president of the United Auto Workers. His term as president began in 2019, and...
The New Negro Alliance (1933-1940s)
The New Negro Alliance (NNA) was a Washington, D.C. based organization founded in 1933 by mostly middle class blacks to...
Joseph James (?-?)
Joseph James was president of San Francisco National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1944 he won...
Jibreel Khazan/Ezell Blair, Jr. (1941- )
One of the original Greensboro Four who took part in the Woolworth sit-ins. It is reported that as a nine-year-old...
Lester Blackwell Granger (1896-1976)
Lester Blackwell Granger was a social worker and civil rights and labor rights activist best known for leading the National...
