Category: The Time of Turmoil and Triumph: 1967-1992

The era of assassinating Black civil rights activists was in full swing by 1967. Medgar Evers was shot and killed in his driveway in 1955; Malcolm X was killed by some members of the Nation of Islam in 1965 while Fred Hampton of the Black Panthers would be killed by the police in 1969.  In […]

Two seats signify Thomas “Tommy” Stockett’s centers of gravity—the seat in front of his easel at home and the seat in front of his easel in the busy, cluttered, first-floor newsroom of the Baltimore Afro-American. He figures he’s spent half his life or more in one seat or the other. His office colleagues, for his […]

1967 The Virginia branch of the NAACP creates a new plan to stop riots. 1968 Nixon decides to keep D.C. Mayor Walter E. Washington in his position for the new presidential administration. 1969 The Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in New Orleans and The President of the New Orleans Jazz Museum establishes a drive […]