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Her first book, Heads of the Colored People, won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, PEN/Open Book Award, and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, among other prizes. Heads of the Colored People has been translated into Italian, Turkish, and Portuguese. She also won a 2019 Whiting Award. [1]
The Destiny of the People of Color, a lecture, delivered before the Philomathean Society and Hamilton Lyceum, in January, 1841. New York. ISBN 9780195309614. OCLC 27872624. Smith, James McCune (1846). "A Dissertation on the Influence of Climate on Longevity". The merchants' magazine and commercial review. ISBN 9780195309614. OCLC 34227767.
Mary White Ovington was born April 11, 1865, in Brooklyn, New York City.Her grandmother attended the Connecticut congregation of Samuel Joseph May.Her parents, members of the Unitarian Church were supporters of women's rights and had been involved in the anti-slavery movement.
Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for a quarter of a century, from 1929 until 1955.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [a] is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
Dorie Ann Ladner (June 28, 1942 – March 11, 2024) was an American civil rights activist and social worker. Along with her sister Joyce, she was a leading community organizer in Mississippi for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the 1960s.
Mary Church Terrell. Mary Church was born in the year of 1863 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Robert Reed Church and Louisa Ayres, [2] both freed slaves of mixed racial ancestry. Her parents were prominent members of the Black elite of Memphis after the Civil War, during the Reconstruction Era.
Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 – October 24, 1929) was an American lawyer, anti-imperial activist, and civil rights leader based in Boston, Massachusetts.According to Storey's biographer, William B. Hixson Jr., he had a worldview that embodied "pacifism, anti-imperialism, and racial egalitarianism fully as much as it did laissez-faire and moral tone in government."