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 […]
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Thomas Stockett, AFRO Cartoonist
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 […]
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Notable Moments in Black History: 1967-1992
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 […]