Category: Civil Rights
The Odious Compromise of 1877
On January 25, 1877, the US Senate moves as part of the Compromise of 1877 to cast 20 “undetermined” electoral votes for Republican Gov. Rutherford…
Renaissance (Black) Man
On this day in 1976, actor, athlete and activist Paul Robeson dies from a stroke in Philadelphia, PA; he was 77. Born to a former…
Paradise Lost?
On January 17, 1893, Queen Liliuokalani, the rightful monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is overthrown in a coup tacitly led by American sugar planters…
The Arc of the Moral Universe
On this day in 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born to a Baptist minister and his church organist wife in Atlanta, GA. Becoming a…
A Cad of The Lost Cause
On this day in 1963, George C. Wallace, four-time governor of Alabama and four-time presidential hopeful, is sworn in as the 45th Governor of Alabama….
The Nation’s First From Old Dominion
On this day in 1990 Douglas Wilder becomes the first-ever African American elected governor of a US state, and the first governor of color in…
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