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Walter Francis White
Shout out to Walter Francis White—civil rights activist and former leader of the NAACP. Born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1893, you progressed to graduate from…
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Robert C. Weaver
Shout out to Robert C. Weaver—economist and first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As the grandson of Robert Tanner…
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Annie Lee Wilkerson Cooper
Shout out to Annie Lee Wilkerson Cooper—civil rights activist and voting rights advocate. A woman of purpose during the Civil Rights Movement, you remained determined…
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Hosea Williams
Shout out to Hosea Williams. Known by your peers as a good neighbor, a church goer, and a community leader, you fanned the flames of…
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Lorraine Hansberry
Shout out to Lorraine Hansberry—playwright and activist. A beautiful flower withered from the world too soon, you were artistically endowed and unimpeachably Black. You astoundingly…
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Voletta Wallace
Shout out to Voletta Wallace—mother, teacher, and breast cancer survivor. As a young lady growing up in Trelawny Parish, Jamaica, you dreamed of becoming prosperous…
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Thurgood Marshall
Shout out to Thurgood Marshall—civil rights activist and the first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice. While attending HBCU, Lincoln University of PA—considered the Black Princeton…
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Fred Hampton
Shout out to Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton of the Illinois Black Panther Party—“Part of a national organization dedicated to the liberation of oppressed people everywhere.”…
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Black Wall Street
Shout out to the victims of “Black Wall Street”—the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma that is the most successful and affluent black community in U.S….
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David Kennedy
Just 25 years ago, in 1996, an abandoned theater in downtown Laurens, South Carolina, was purchased by leaders of the Ku Klux Klan. They converted…
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