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(1811) John Gloucester, “Dedication of the First African Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia”
In October of 1811, before the dedication of the first house of worship for African American Presbyterians in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Reverend John Gloucester, founder and Pastor, had the following address circulated throughout the surrounding neighborhood and all friendly to his cause. The
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Source: Black Past
Uncle Tom Revisited: Rescuing the Real Character from the Caricature
Today the phrase Uncle Tom evokes a powerfully negative image in American society.  It depicts a weak, subservient, cringing black man who betrays his race and its struggle for liberation.  David Reynolds, an English professor in the Graduate School of  the City University of New York
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“Going South: William Fontaine’s Trip to Virginia, 1948”
In the following article drawn from his book, Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine, University of Pennsylvania historian Bruce Kuklick introduces us to the world of  philosopher William Fontaine, one of the few African American faculty members at an Ivy League
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(1826) John B. Russwurm, “The Condition and Prospects of Haiti”
Antebellum African Americans took enormous pride in Haiti. The nation of the enslaved rose in rebellion in 1791 and on January 1, 1804 won its independence from France. At that moment the Republic of Haiti was born as the first black republic in the world, the first independent country in Latin
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(1855) William C. Nell, “The Triumph Of Equal School Rights In Boston”
In September 1855, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ruled in Boston v. Roberts that a separate school could not be maintained at taxpayer expense by the city of Boston. This decision marked the first significant victory in what would be a 99 year struggle to end de jure segregation culminating in
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(1854) William Lloyd Garrison, “No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery”
By 1854 William Lloyd Garrison was the most prominent abolitionist in the United States.  Beginning with his newspaper, the Liberator, which he established in Boston in 1831, Garrison led the effort to end slavery in the nation.  In this 1854 speech which appears below, Garrison called for complete
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Slavery
Hugh Davis, a Virginian is sentenced to be whipped before an assembly of Negroes and others for abusing himself to the dishonor of God and shame of Christians, by defiling his body in lying with a Negro.
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(1875) Congressman John R. Lynch, “Speech on the Civil Rights Bill”
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Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne also goes by the nickname Weezy F. Baby, or just Weezy for short… Tha Carter is a reference to his real name, Dwayne Carter… He has the words “Fear God” tattooed over his right and left eyelids, and teardrops inked beneath the corner of each eye, among his many other tattoos.
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(1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”
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(1957) Roy Wilkins, “The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back”
In 1957 Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was next to Rev. Martin Luther King, the most recognized civil rights leader in the nation.  In October of that year he addressed the Commonwealth Club of California five weeks after
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(1963) George Wallace, “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever”
By 1963 Alabama Governor George Corley Wallace had emerged as the leading opponent to the growing civil rights movement.  Six months later he gained international notoriety for his stand in the door of the University of Alabama to block the entrance of two black students, Vivian Malone and James
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(1864) Arnold Bertonneau, “Every Man Should Stand Equal Before the Law”
Reconstruction began in Federally-occupied Louisiana in the midst of the Civil War. In 1863 African American men in New Orleans called for the right to vote in the new loyal government being organized under Union Army protection. However when President Lincoln announced his new reconstruction
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(1849) Charles Sumner, “Equality Before the Law: Unconstitutionality of Separate Colored Schools in Massachusetts”
In 1848 Benjamin Roberts filed a lawsuit against the city of Boston on behalf of his five year old daughter, Sarah, who was denied admission to schools in her neighborhood and instead assigned to the lone all-black school in the city.  Two attorneys, Robert Morris, one of the first black lawyers in
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(1899) Lucy Craft Laney, “The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman”
Lucy Craft Laney was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1854, into a family of ten children. Taught to read and write by her mother, a domestic worker, she graduated from Macons Lewis High School and entered Atlanta University at the age of fifteen and graduated in 1873. Laney taught in the Georgia public
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(2015) President Barack Obama's Eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney
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(1879) Robert J. Harlan, “Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs”
Between 1879 and 1880, six thousand Exodusters left Louisiana and Mississippi for Kansas. Their migration, prompted by the end of racially-integrated Reconstruction governments, by anti-black violence and by sharecropping and tenant farming, brought national attention including a Congressional
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(1965) Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Voting Rights Act"
In early March 1965 much of the nations attention was focused on civil rights marches in and around Selma, Alabama. Activists led by Dr. Martin Luther King used these demonstrations to urge the federal government to act to end the denial of voting rights to tens of thousands of African Americans
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Barclay, Paris K.C. (1956- )
Paris K.C. Barclay is an award-winning American television director, producer, and LGBT rights activist.  In 2013, he broke new ground when he was named President of the Directors Guild of America, making him the first out gay male and the first African American to hold the
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1956
(1877) Peter H. Clark, “Socialism: The Remedy for the Evils of Society”
Peter Humphries Clark, principal of the Colored High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, was one of a small number of 19th Century African American Socialists. Grandson of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, schoolteacher and later Principal of the Colored High School in Cincinnati and staunch
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The Emancipation Proclamation
On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln went into effect.  The Proclamation, written the previous September, declared free all enslaved people in the Confederate States (or portions of those states) who resided in territory still in rebellion
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Aaru: Abode of the blessed
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(1867) The Reconstruction Acts
Chap. CLIII - An Act to provide for the more efficient Government of the Rebel States [Passed over President Johnsons veto March
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Grose, William (1835-1898)
Before the Civil War, when he was 18, William Grose left his home in Washington, D.C. and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Assigned to the USS Vincennes in 1853, he went to South Africa, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia and the Arctic during his tour of duty.  Grose, who was honorably discharged in San
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(1874) Congressman Richard Harvey Cain, “All We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation And Equal Rights”
During an 1874 Congressional debate over the Civil Rights Bill then being considered, South Carolina Representative Richard Harvey Cain responds to attacks on the proposed legislation. His speech appears
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(1849) Frederick Douglass, “On Mexico”
On June 8, 1849, Frederick Douglass gave a major oration at Faneuil Hall in Boston soon after he returned from Europe. The speech addressed a number of issues including the politics of Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky. After his main address, Douglass returned to the podium following an eulogy by
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(1875) Congressman James T. Rapier, “Half Free, Half Slave”
On February 4, 1875, Congressman James T. Rapier of Alabama, rose on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to support the Civil Right bill then before Congress which when enacted later that year became the Civil Rights Act of 1875.   His speech appears
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Saint Augustine
St. Augustine, (Aurelius Augustinus, A.B. 354-430 bishop of Hippo,(now Souk-Ahras in modern Algeria),wrote the City of God, setting forth the Christian view of the world and humanity, in A.D. 410.
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