Elected officials, Civil rights leader honor the life of Greenville historian Ruth Ann Butler
The death of Ruth Ann Butler sent shockwaves through the Upstate as political figures McMaster and White offer condolences to ...
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Mary Jackson Was Hired in 1951 By NACA, Was First Black Female NASA Engineer
Mary Jackson began her engineering career in an era in which female engineers of any background were a rarity.
Historic meeting in Illinois paved the way for Black citizens’ rights
Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state in 1865, a year after the Illinois Colored Convention of 1853, where men and women from across the country worked to ...
Who was Rosa Parks? Meet the woman who changed the course of history
The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.
This Black trailblazer was the first woman of color to have a theater named after her in 50 years
The facility, which is officially called the Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center, is the only fine arts center to have been named after a woman of color in the last 50 years. It is also the first of ...
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Who was Shirley Chisholm? One-woman show explores the Black presidential hopeful you might not know
A one-woman show coming to West Philly tells the story of a woman often left out of history books: Shirley Chisholm, the ...
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Winsome Earle-Sears: First woman of color elected to statewide office in Virginia
Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears is a force to be reckoned with, serving as the first woman of color to be ...
Overcoming prejudice: The story behind Nevada’s first Black legislator
When Nevada Assemblyman Woodrow Wilson went into a Carson City bar where fellow legislators “did their politicking” in the 1960s, they told the owner they wouldn’t continue patronizing the bar if ...