BHM Project by AVERY DE LEON

Alice Coachman (1923-2014)

adeleon0124 — 2024-02-15 21:57:23 UTC

Coachman, the world's first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the 1948 London Games, overcame discrimination and hate, inspiring future generations of black athletes to reach for their goals. Near the end of her career, Coachman was inducted into 9 Halls of Fame and started the Alice Coachman Track and Field Foundation to aid young athletes and former competitors in financial need.

Arthur Ashe (tennis player) 1943-1993)

jlin0128 — 2024-02-19 05:26:38 UTC

Ashe was the first black player that was selected for the United States Davis Cup team. Ashe had a heart disease and went public with his illness after his second heart surgery, he worked to raise awareness about the disease he had and advocated teaching safe sex education. On June 20, 1993, President Bill Clinton awarded Ashe the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Mama Cax (1989-2019)

jlin0128 — 2024-02-19 05:31:06 UTC

Mama Cax was a model and also a disability rights activist. She displayed her prosthetic leg on runways and advocated consistently for people with disabilities.

Richard Allen (1760-1831)

jlin0128 — 2024-02-19 05:38:18 UTC

Richard Allen was a minister, educator, and writer who formed one of the first churches for black people. He was also the first independent black denomination. He opened his church in 1794 in Philadelphia.

Bayard Rustin (1912-1987)

jlin0128 — 2024-02-19 05:44:23 UTC

Bayard Rustin was an American political activist. He supported gay rights, socialism, nonviolence, and civil rights. Not only that, Bayard Rustin took part in the March in Washington as the principal organizer.

Charleston Hospital Strike (19/3/1969-27/6/1969)

jlin0128 — 2024-02-19 05:48:22 UTC

The Charleston Hospital Strike was a protest for the unfair treatment African American hospital workers got. People demanded higher wages. Local 1199 withdrew due to its inability to secure regular dues from its members.

Howard Thurman (1899-1981)

adeleon0124 — 2024-02-20 04:48:23 UTC

As the first African American dean of chapel at a traditionally white American university, Thurman was also a Baptist preacher, theologian, mystic, educator, and civil rights leader. During the twentieth century, he played a leading role in many social justice movements and organizations, working alongside historical figures such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. In 1944, he cofounded San Francisco's Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, the first integrated interfaith religious congregation in the United States (a desegregated, multi-religion church).

Eunice Carter (1899-1970)

adeleon0124 — 2024-02-20 04:57:27 UTC

Carter was an American lawyer, and the first African-American woman to work as a prosecutor in the NY Country District Attorney's Office. She worked to advance the status of women in the world, performing in both the Pan-African Congress and United Nations committees.

Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831-1895)

adeleon0124 — 2024-02-20 05:14:54 UTC

Crumpler, the first black woman to earn an M.D. degree in the United States, challenged the prejudice that prevented African Americans at the time from pursuing careers in the medical field. Her 'Book of Medical Discourses' was one of the very first medical publications made by an African American.

Detroit Walk To Freedom (1963)

adeleon0124 — 2024-02-20 05:25:12 UTC

The Detroit Walk To Freedom was a mass march during the Civil Rights Movement that publicly advocated for solutions to the employment and housing discrimination problems in the urban North. Additionally, it was used to speak out against segregation and the brutality that civil rights activists were experiencing in the South. There were an estimated 125,000 participants and spectators, making it the single largest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history, prior to the March on Washington.

Shirley Chisholm 1924-2005

rali0018 — 2024-02-21 05:13:30 UTC

Chisholm was the first black woman to be elected to the US Congress. She also represented New York's 12th congressional district for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. Chisholm introduced more than 50 pieces of legislation as well as championed racial and gender equality and ended the Vietnam War.

Eunice Carter 1899-1970

rali0018 — 2024-02-21 05:19:16 UTC

Carter was one of New York's first African American lawyers and female African-American prosecutors in the United States. She established key facts in the prosecution of mobster. she also led massive prostitution racketing which helped solve a very important case.

Amelia Boynton 1911-2015

rali0018 — 2024-02-21 05:24:31 UTC

Boynton was an American activist and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. She was also a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches and even became vice president for the Schiller Institute. In addition, she helped with voting rights and was the first African American in Alabama to run for Congress.

Lewis Latimer 1848-1928

rali0018 — 2024-02-21 05:28:20 UTC

Latimer was an American inventor and patent draftsman. He made inventions like the evaporative AC, better light bulbs, better toilets, and systems for railroad cars. He even helped Thomas Edison to invent the light bulb.

The Greenville Library Desegregation Crisis 1960

rali0018 — 2024-02-21 05:32:49 UTC

The Greenville Library desegregation crisis May charges against the Greenville eights drop. 8 African American students protested segregated libraries. They protested at white libraries and helped segregation at Greenville Library.

Visitors Log

adeleon0124 — 2024-02-21 21:33:42 UTC