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Remember What They Told You To Forget: The Campaign To Erase Black History
BlackPast.org Board Member and newspaper columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. shares his concerns about the prospect of Black history being lost...
Charles Banks (1873-1923)
Booker T. Washington once called Charles Banks the “most influential businessman in the United States” and Mississippi’s “leading Negro Banker.”...
Black Enterprise (1970- )
Black Enterprise (BE) is a bi-monthly publication that is now the premier source for investing, wealth-building, and business information for...
Emmett Louis Till (1941-1955) [Children’s Edition]
This entry is for juvenile audiences. To see the full version of this entry, click here. Who are they: Emmett...
Freedom Bank of Finance (1969-2000)
In 1968, a group of businessmen in Portland, Oregon, saw the recently founded Bank of Finance in Los Angeles, California, as a model for creating the first...
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963: One Participant Remembers
In the account below, Edith Lee-Payne recalls the day she was photographed as a 12-year-old participant in the March on...
(1963) Josephine Baker, “Speech at the March on Washington”
Josephine Baker is remembered by most people as the flamboyant African American entertainer who earned fame and fortune in Paris...
Annie Turnbo Malone (1869-1957)
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Annie Turnbo Malone was born to Robert Turnbo and Isabella Cook in Metropolis, Illinois, on August 9,...
National Negro Business League (1900- )
The National Negro Business League (NNBL) was founded by Booker T. Washington in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1900. The league, which...
