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Nafissa Thompson-Spires (born 1983) is an African American writer. Her first book, Heads of the Colored People (2019), won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the PEN/Open Book Award, and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction.
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.
New York: Managers of the Colored Orphan Asylum. OCLC 16788188. Smith, James McCune (1843). 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 ...
The Colored Convention of 1843 was the first successful national convention since that held in 1835, [13] and it reestablished the pattern of regular conventions, increasing the opportunities for political and social discussions. It helped unite colored people in support of anti-slavery and actions towards freedom. A newspaper clipping of The ...
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.
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.
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.
Dorsey was born in Philadelphia on October 23, 1837, into a prosperous family headed by his father Thomas J. Dorsey, a noted caterer and part of the Black elite. Thomas escaped slavery from a plantation in Maryland in the 1830s and made his way to Philadelphia with his brothers, including Basil Dorsey.