Civil Rights – NAACP
Arthur F. Elmes (1890-1963)
Pastor, Civil Rights Activist, and Boulé President Arthur F. Elmes, was born on March 30, 1890, in St. John’s, Antigua,...
Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni (1943- )
“There’s no life in safety,” said three-time National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Image Award winner Yolande...
Albert Morris Johnson (1935-1984)
The first African American mayor of Las Cruces, New Mexico, Albert Morris Johnson was born in Lebanon, Tennessee. His birth,...
Chester I. Lewis, Jr. (1928-1990)
Civil rights activist Chester Isaac Lewis Jr. was born on August 8, 1928, in Hutchinson, Kansas, to Chester Isaac, Sr.,...
Edgar Amos Love (1891-1974)
Edgar Amos Love was an American bishop with the Methodist Episcopal Church and cofounder of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Love...
Joyce Ladner (1943- )
Dr. Joyce A. Ladner, activist, sociologist, educator, mentor, and author, worked fervently for equality and justice. Ladner was born Joyce...
Johnie Driver (?-?)
Johnie Driver is one of the few non-violent civil rights activists to emerge in Utah in the 1960s. Yet, even...
New Year’s Day March, Greenville, South Carolina (1960)
The New Year’s Day March, the first major civil rights demonstration in South Carolina, was a 1,000-person march that protested...
Jena Six (2006)
The case of the Jena Six exposed racial injustice and inequality following an incident involving six male African American teenagers....
