Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Its success launched nationwide efforts to end racial segregation of public facilities. Continue reading Profile : Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
Ruth E. Edwards is a book artist, instructor and founder of Books in Black, a collective of African American book makers. Continue reading Profile: Ruth E. Edwards (1940-)
William Edmondson was a self-taught sculptor who was the first African American to have a solo exhibition (1937) at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Continue reading Profile: William Edmondson (1874-1951)
On October 23, 1947, the NAACP sent to the UN a document titled “An Appeal to the World,” in which the NAACP asked the UN to redress human rights violations the United States committed against its African-American citizens. W.E.B. Du Bois, who drafted the NAACP petition with the assistance of Earl B. Dickerson (J.D. ’20), William Robert Ming, Jr.(J.D. ’33), and other leading lawyers and scholars, intended to focus attention … Continue reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s Historic U.N. Petition Continues to Inspire Human Rights Advocacy
