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As the school year winds down and people take advantage of vacation time and holidays, there are some new cultural activities relating to Arthur Ashe that might be of interest […]

April 27, 1994: Change comes to South Africa

April 27, 2016/in Africa All Apartheid Arthur Ashe Civil Rights Education History Mandela Opportunity Protest /by Joe

Frederik de Klerk & Nelson Mandela at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 1992. © World Economic Forum Twenty-two years ago today, South Africa and the world were forever changed […]

The Effects of New Discrimination Laws in Mississippi and North Carolina

April 18, 2016/in All Civil Rights Opportunity /by Joe

A couple of weeks ago, disappointing news arose out of Mississippi and North Carolina: the two states had passed targeted anti-LGBTQ legislations that to deny civil rights and protections to […]

From the Salt March to Civil Rights

April 6, 2016/in 1960s African American History All Civil Rights Education History Opportunity Protest /by Joe

One often hears the names Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. used during conversations about civil disobedience and freedom. It is also well known that King cited Gandhi as […]

The Enduring Legacy of Andrew Young

February 29, 2016/in African American History All American History Apartheid Arthur Ashe Civil Rights Education History Opportunity Protest Service /by Joe

Photograph by Warren K. Leffler Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy and Andrew Young in 1965 For ArthurAshe.org’s final Black History Month installment, we turn our attention to Andrew Young. […]

More than Just Words: Barbara Jordan’s Strong Politics

February 25, 2016/in 1960s African American History All American History Civil Rights Education History Opportunity Service Womens History /by Joe

Photo by Thomas J. O’Halloran. Photo by Warren K. Leffler. The AALC Black History Month celebration continues with our profile of Barbara Jordan: an American politician, lawyer and educator who, […]

Behind the Scenes: The Work of Augustus Hawkins

February 23, 2016/in 1960s African American History All American History Civil Rights Education History Opportunity Service US Congress /by Joe

Augustus Hawkins’ congressional portrait Hawkins in 1962 Today for Black History Month, we honor Augustus F. Hawkins, a well-known Democrat politician and the first African-American from California to serve in […]

Public Defender: Shirley Chisholm’s Lonely Battle

February 19, 2016/in 1960s African American History All American History Civil Rights Education History Opportunity President Obama Service Womens History /by Joe

Shirley Chisholm in 1965. The next profile for Black History Month is about Shirley Chisholm: an American politician, educator, and author. Chisholm was the first African American woman elected to […]

The Bold Strokes of Edward Brooke

February 17, 2016/in 1960s African American History All American History Civil Rights History Opportunity Service US Congress /by Joe

Senator Edward Brooke with President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office, 1967. Edward Brooke Edward Brooke was an American Republican politician who, in 1966, became the first African-American popularly […]

The Mixed Legacy of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

February 15, 2016/in African American History All American History Civil Rights History Opportunity Protest US Congress /by Joe

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. with President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. Our next subject is Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., a minister, activist and congressman from New York who would come […]