John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in […]
A veteran civil rights activist, Rev. C.T. Vivian, who marched alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died at his home in Atlanta, his loved ones said Friday. He was 95. Vivian’s daughter, Denise Morse, confirmed […]
Joseph Lowery: Veteran US civil rights leader dies aged 98 ReutersReverend Lowery (centre) with US Senator Barack Obama during a march in Selma in 2007 Joseph Lowery, a veteran US civil rights leader and former […]
Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African-American men, was founded in December 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Initially serving as a support group for minority students who faced […]
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