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The Memphis 13 are the group of young children who integrated the schools of Memphis, Tennessee. On October 3, 1961, 13 African-American first grade students were enrolled in schools that were previously all white. The schools that the students attended were Bruce, Gordon, Rozelle, and Springdale elementary schools. [1]
[45] Wells connected lynching to sexual violence, showing how the myth of the Black man's lust for white women led to the murder of African-American men. Wells collected 14 pages of statistics related to lynching cases committed from 1892 to 1895; she also included pages of graphic accounts detailing specific lynchings.
February 25, 1961 – February 24, 1973 JOT: 1965–1974 Superbook: October 1, 1981 – March 25, 1982 The Flying House: April 5, 1982 – March 28, 1983 Superbook II: In Search for Ruffles and Return to the 20th Century: April 4, 1983 – September 26, 1983 [2] The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible: April 26, 1985 – August 19, 1992
No woman had ever preached the keynote sermon at the Joint National Baptist Convention, a gathering of four historically Black Baptist denominations representing millions of people. Several women ...
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All at the table were men. During the meal a woman known as "a sinner" entered the room and anointed Jesus's feet with her tears and with some ointment. Her tears fell upon his feet and she wiped them with her hair. The Bible does not say whether she had encountered Jesus in person prior to this. Neither does the Bible disclose the nature of ...
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On October 7, 2009, King received an award for her "lifetime of service to women and other causes" at the National Coalition of 100 Black Women Convention. [ 132 ] On November 7, 2013, as part of the "Celebrating the Dream", in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the I Have a Dream speech done by her father, King received the Legend Award ...