Tags
- Automotive
- Black banks
- black business
- Black Economics
- Black Food
- black owned
- Black Owned Vegan Businesses
- BlackOutMonth2020
- Body Butters
- California Black Businesses
- Chicago
- Cosmetics
- Farmers
- Feminine Care
- Gas Stations
- Gun Ranges
- Gun Stores
- Hygiene
- JuneteenthBlackout
- JuneteethBlackOut
- los angeles
- Make-up
- Men's Grooming Business
- Oral Care
- Restaurants
- Shaving Cremes
- Skincare Lines
- support black businesses
- Toilet Paper
- Vegan Business
- Women's Products
Civil Rights RSS
Influential Black Leaders - Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was one of the foremost African American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founding the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Who Was Booker T. Washington? Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington put himself through school and became a teacher after the Civil War. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama (now known as Tuskegee University), which grew immensely and focused on training African Americans in agricultural pursuits. A political adviser and writer, Washington clashed with intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois over the best avenues for racial uplift. Early Life Born to a slave...
Martin Luther King Jr. - Influential Black Leaders
Martin Luther King Jr. Facts Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. King, a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. Among his many efforts, King headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Through his activism and inspirational speeches he played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the United States, as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among...
Dick Gregory - Influential Black Leaders
Dick Gregory was a pioneering comedian and civil rights activist who took on race with layered, nuanced humor during the turbulent 1960s. “I've always been insulted when people tell me that my humor has done a lot for race relations. I never thought comedy did anything but make uncomfortable people feel comfortable.” —Dick Gregory Who Was Dick Gregory? Dick Gregory was born in 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri. Gregory got his big break performing as a stand-up comedian at the Playboy Club in the early 1960s. Known for his sophisticated, layered humor that took on racial issues of the day,...
Shirley Chisholm: Influential Black Leaders
Because before ‘Yes We Can’ there was ‘Unbought and Unbossed’ 1924 – 2005 When thinking about how contentious things are in Congress today, imagine being the sole black female congresswoman nearly 50 years ago, at the height of the civil rights movement. Shirley Chisholm was relentless in breaking political barriers with respect to both race and gender. She was a pioneer. In 1968, Chisholm became the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress, representing New York’s 12th District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. As both a New York state legislator and a congresswoman, Chisholm championed the rights...
Ella Baker: Influential Black Leaders
Proof that visibility is not necessary to make an impact, Ella Baker is one of history’s lesser-known civil rights heroes, yet one of the most important. If Martin Luther King Jr. was the head of the civil rights movement, Ella Baker was its backbone. Born on Dec. 13, 1903, in Norfolk, Virginia, and raised in North Carolina, Baker cultivated her passion and desire for social justice at a young age. Her grandmother, who was a slave, once told her a story of being whipped for refusing to marry a man of her slave owner’s choosing — fueling Baker’s desire for...
Tags
- All
- #25DaysofBlackBiz
- #bankblack
- #BlackandBlue
- #BlackBoyJoy
- #BlackChurchesBurning
- #MyAfricanAmerican
- Abolitionist
- activism
- Activist
- Actor
- actress
- African
- African American
- African American Singer
- African american women of history
- Alex Haley
- Amílcar Cabral
- Amos Wilson
- Angela Davis
- Aretha Franklin
- Art
- Assata
- Athlete
- Atlanta Daily
- Author
- BAD
- balck leaders
- Baseball
- black
- Black Abolistionist
- Black Achievement
- Black Activist
- Black Actor
- Black actress
- Black Anthropologist
- Black Artist
- Black Artists
- Black Author
- Black Critic
- Black Economics
- Black Educator
- black female
- black female artist
- Black Feminist
- Black Health Practitioner
- Black Historian
- Black History
- Black History leaders
- Black History Month
- black hollywood
- Black Leaders
- Black Leaders list
- Black Lecturer
- Black Man
- Black Medical Ethicist
- Black Men
- Black Panther
- Black Panther Party
- Black Pastor
- Black Playwright
- Black Power
- Black President
- Black Professor
- Black Psychiatrist
- Black Psychologist
- Black Scholar
- Black Scientist
- Black Sociologist
- Black Speaker
- Black Spiritualist
- Black Woman
- Black Women
- black women actresses
- Black women musicians
- Black Women of history
- Black Writer
- Blues
- Boxing
- Business
- Caged Birtd
- chadwick boseman
- Children
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Activist
- Civil Rights Leader
- Civil Rights Movement
- Civil Tights
- Composer
- Congress
- Director
- Duke Ellington
- Editor's Picks
- Ella Baker
- Emancipation
- Entrepreneur
- Entrepreneurship
- Featured
- Feminist
- First Black Baseball Player
- Frederick Douglass
- Gender Equality
- Greatest
- Heavyweight
- Hip Hop
- Historian
- Iconic black women
- Influential
- Influential Black Leaders
- Islam
- Jackson 5
- James Baldqin
- Jay Z
- Jazz
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Jesse Jackson
- Jimi Hendrix
- King Of Pop
- Liturature
- Magic Johnson
- Marcus Garvey
- Martin Luther King
- Maya Angelou
- Michael Jackson
- Muhammad Ali
- Music
- Musician
- Musin
- NAACP
- News
- News Video
- Nobel Prize Winner
- Novelist
- Obama
- Pan-Africanism
- Philanthropist
- Pianist
- Playwright
- Poet
- Poetry
- Politics
- race
- Racism
- Ragtime
- Rap
- Rapper
- Religion
- Renowned Speaker
- Robert Abbott
- Rock and Roll
- Runoko Rashidi
- Shaka Zulu
- Shakur
- Shirley Chisholm
- Singer
- Slave
- slavery
- Sprituality
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Thriler
- Trumpet
- TV Host
- Underground Railroad
- Urban
- W.E.B. Dubois
- War
- White House
- women
- Women empowerment
- World
- Writer
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Zulu