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Category: Black History

President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on Aug. 6, 1965. (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

Education of MLK’s Life, Legacy Critical for Young People, Advocates Say

by WI Guest AuthorFebruary 25, 2020December 21, 2021
Katherine Johnson
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Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician of ‘Hidden Figures’ Fame, Dies at 101

by WI Guest AuthorFebruary 24, 2020December 21, 2021
Harriet Tubman
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Black History Interwoven with Suffrage Centennial

by WI Guest AuthorFebruary 20, 2020December 21, 2021
Malcolm X
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Remembering El Hajj Malik El Shabazz

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior EditorFebruary 19, 2020December 21, 2021
Frances "Fannie" Barrier Williams
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Frances ‘Fannie’ Barrier Williams a Champion for Women’s Suffrage, African Americans

by Stacy M. BrownFebruary 19, 2020December 21, 2021
Doris Miller, Mess Attendant First Class, USN, during his visit to the Naval Training Station in Great Lakes, Ill., on Jan. 7, 1943 (Courtesy of U.S. Navy)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History

Aircraft Carrier Named After Doris Miller

by WI Guest AuthorFebruary 17, 2020December 21, 2021
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NNPA President Benjamin Chavis Interviews Sylvia Cyrus

by WI Guest AuthorFebruary 15, 2020December 21, 2021
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The Carter G. Woodson Home

by WI Guest AuthorFebruary 15, 2020December 21, 2021
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‘Recovering Untold Stories’: Civil Rights Veteran Revisits School Victory

by WI Guest AuthorFebruary 13, 2020December 21, 2021
The Battle at Island Mound featured the first Black soldiers to fight in the Civil War. (Courtesy of Bates County Museum)
Posted inBlack History

How Black Soldiers Saved the Union in the Forgotten Battle of Island Mound

by Stacy M. BrownFebruary 12, 2020December 21, 2021

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