Thomas Jefferson quote: “The tumults in America…
Thomas Jefferson quote: “The tumults in America, I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. O...
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Edmonia Lewis: sculptor and equality advocate
— Most people didn’t know her age; she kept those details a mystery. But no one questioned her remarkable talent. For as a sculptor, Edmonia Lewis w...
Ida B. Wells-Barnett quote: “The government…
Ida B. Wells-Barnett quote: “The government which had made the Negro a citizen found itself unable to protect him. It gave him the right to vote, but deni...
Alice Paul quote: “What we have come…
Quote “What we have come here for is to ask just one simple little thing, that this Judiciary Committee should refer this Susan B. Anthony amendment to th...
Portrait of a family. South Carolina, 1862.
Portrait of a family in Beaufort, South Carolina, taken in 1862. — “Portrait of a family. Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862.” source: O’Sulli...
She is. A Union Army Soldier.
“Why shouldn’t a woman fight in the war?” Eliza asked her sister. “Because you can’t, and so you mustn’t. And many are dying...
Eleanor Roosevelt quote on freedom of thought
I have been one of those who have carried the fight for complete freedom of information in the United Nations. And while accepting the fact that some of our pre...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – Civil Rights Leader
Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and Henry David Thoreau, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed in nonviolent resistance as the path to gaining equal rights for Black A...
Anna Julia Cooper: Educator and equality advocate
Biography “It is not the intelligent woman vs. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman vs. the black, the brown, and the red,–it is not even the cau...
Charles Young: Short Story Biography
Throughout his upbringing, Charles’ parents placed much emphasis on education. He often studied at home with his mother, who though enslaved for her years...