Category Archives: Voices of the Past

Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez was born in 1927 to parents who were farmers. Growing up during the...

bell hooks

Born in 1952 into a family of nine, Gloria Jean Watkins grew up in the...

Frederick Douglass

"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that...

James Baldwin

Born in 1920s Harlem, James Baldwin was the first born of 9 children. He grew...