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Famous Examples of Early Interracial Marriage
The U.S. Supreme Court did not lift the nationwide ban on interracial marriage until June 12, 1967. But years before the high court’s pivotal decision, dozens of celebrities in and out of Hollywood partnered with couples of different racial backgrounds. This list includes 12
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Lonnie Johnson
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to come up with a great idea, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. For Lonnie Johnson, a lifetime of achievement and success at various levels on government and private sector projects could not prepare him for the success the he would ultimately achieve – by
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How Income Inequality Affects Minority Workers
It’s no secret that white households in the United States take in significantly more income than black and Latino households do, fueling racial inequality. What’s to blame for this discrepancy? It’s not just that whites work in higher paying jobs than their minority counterparts do. Even when
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E. Denise Simmons made history in 2008 by becoming the first openly lesbian African American mayor in the United States. She was selected by fellow city councilors in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to serve as mayor of the city for a two-year term from 2008 to
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Many people assume that February is the shortest month of the whole year to be entitled of Black History Month. But, did you know that is celebrates the birthday of Fredrick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln?
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The following childrens books not only provide an introduction to the lives of African-American freedom fighters your children should know about, but among them they also provide a historical overview of the fight for civil rights in the last several centuries up to the present, including the eras
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Frederick McKinley Jones
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The following are video presentations of lectures I have given as the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American history from 2006 to the
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