by Teaching History | Jun 16, 2016 | Civil Rights
The television host and comedian on why celebrities don’t transcend race, how Muhammad Ali helped him find his blackness and why, sometimes, gimmicks work.. Source: Talk: W. Kamau Bell Has Just the Thing to End Racism
by Teaching History | Feb 29, 2016 | Civil Rights
On this date in 1968 the Kerner Report was made public. The civil Rights struggle of the 1960’ was making inroads, integration of southern school districts was progressing and by 1967, 22% of the black students in the 17 southern and Border States were in integrated...
by Teaching History | Feb 25, 2016 | Civil Rights
February 25, 1948 Martin Luther King, Jr. is Ordained as a Baptist minister.
by Teaching History | Feb 10, 2016 | Civil Rights
On this day 1964, after 10 days of debate and voting on 125 amendments, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by a vote of 290-130. The bill prohibited any state or local government or public facility from denying access to anyone...
by Teaching History | Feb 4, 2016 | Civil Rights
Rosa Parks was born on this day in 1913. was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement”. Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey a bus driver’s...
by Teaching History | Mar 7, 2015 | Activists, Did you Know?, Education, History
“We Are the World” is a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World. With sales...
