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The Webster Telephone Exchange Building (1906- )
Located at 2213 Lake Street in North Omaha, Nebraska, the Webster Telephone Exchange Building is an important Black heritage site...
Maria Louise Baldwin (1856-1922)
Maria Louise Baldwin, a pioneering educator, made history in 1881 by becoming a teacher at the Louis Agassiz School, an...
How the Dr. Martin Luther King Birthday Became a Hawaii State Holiday
In January 2025, Daphne Barbee-Wooten, a Hawaii historian and social activist attorney wrote the article below describing the campaign to...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1950- )
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is an award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, and cultural critic. He was born on September 16,...
Harlem, New York (1658- )
Harlem began in 1658 as a Dutch village founded by settlers who named it after the city of Haarlem, in...
Sea Isle City, New Jersey, The Niagara Movement, and the Early 20th Century Struggle for Racial Justice
In the article below New Jersey historian Dr. Joseph A. LaRosa allows us a glimpse into the rarely discussed last...
Lincoln I. Mulkey and Dorothy J. Mulkey
Lincoln I. Mulkey and Dorothy J. Mulkey were the challengers in a major lawsuit, Reitman v. Mulkey, that reestablished housing...
James Earl Chaney (1943-1964)
James Earl Chaney was a civil rights activist and a member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). On June...
Kendrick Meek (1966- )
Kendrick Meek, former highway patrolman, Florida state representative, and state senator, served in the United States House of Representatives as a Democratic representative from Florida’s 17th District...
