Charles Robert Searles was an African American artist born in Philadelphia in 1937. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and was active from the 1960s until he died in 2004 from complications from a stroke. Continue reading Profile: Charles Searles (1937-2004)
Asa Philip Randolph was an American labor unionist, civil rights activist, and socialist politician. Continue reading Profile: Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979)
Roy Ottoway Wilkins was a prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Continue reading Profile: Roy Wilkins (1901-1981)
Whitney Moore Young Jr. was an American civil rights leader. He spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that aggressively worked for equitable access to socioeconomic opportunity for the historically disenfranchised. Continue reading Profile: Whitney Young (1921-1971)
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