Category Archives: Voices of the Past

Ella Baker

Born on this day in 1903, Ella Baker was an iconic civil rights activist. Ella...

Bayard Rustin

Born in 1912 and raised by his grandparents, Julia and Janifer Rustin, young Bayard Rustin...

Mary McLeod Bethune

On this day in 1875 Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was born as the first free...

Malcolm X Day

Today is Malcolm X Day and we celebrate this icon of world history. Born Malcolm...

The Dixon Brothers

56 years ago, in the Spring of 1968, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense...

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells was born into enslavement in 1862 during the Civil War. In her...

Carter G. Woodson

Born in 1875 to formerly enslaved parents, Carter G. Woodson was a historian and author....

Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1924 to immigrant parents. The eldest of...

Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall Hendrix was born in Seattle, WA in 1942. During his childhood his father...

John Lewis

Born in 1940 to parents who were sharecroppers, John Lewis grew up on a farm...