Island / Detroit / Washington / Selma / Eatonville / Oberlin / Kansas City / Atlanta / Dothan / Nashville / Buffalo / Minerva / Philadelphia / Richmond / Little Rock / Bogalusa / New York City / New Orleans / Midtown / Charleston / Montgomery / New York / /
Company
Freedom Riders / Colored Children / The Associated Press / Southern Poverty Law Center / Hurston / the New York Times / The Crisis / Ford Freedom Award Winners Ford Motor Company / National Public Radio / Inter-Racial / /
Continent
America / /
Country
Cyprus / United Kingdom / Israel / Denmark / Congo / Columbia / Yemen / Canada / Iraq / United States / /
Currency
USD / cent / /
Event
Person Travel / Judicial Event / Employment Change / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
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Holiday
Commonwealth Day / /
IndustryTerm
gas stations / official magazine / burial site / integrated / public transportation / Internet tools / health insurance / /
NaturalFeature
Negro / /
Organization
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History / Union Army / Army / University of Mississippi Law School / Baptist Church / Alcorn State University in Ohio / National Basketball Association / National Association for the Advancement of Colored People / Barnard College in New York / Industrial School Board of Colored Children and the Inter-Racial / Washington university / Civil Rights Movement / Ivy League / Politics Institute / Clare College / Alabama State College / Yale University / Teamsters Union / United Nations / Buffalo’s Phillis Wheatley Club / Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee / Highlander Folk School / Cambridge University in England / Cleveland City Hospital / Harvard’s Board of Overseers / Association for the Study of African American Life and History / Mountain Road School / Sinai Hospital / Supreme Court / Phillis Wheatley Club / Hutzel Hospital / MacArthur Foundation / Detroit Medical Society / Fisk University / Ku Klux Klan / Harlem Hospital in New York / Board of Education / Montgomery Industrial School for African-American / Meharry Medical College / Virginia Randolph Education Center / College of Arts and Sciences / Alabama police / Improvement Association / American Baptist Theological Seminary / Harvard University / Wayne State University Medical School / Cornell / Harvard / Montgomery Improvement Association / Howard’s Political Science Department / Wayne State University / Regional Council of Negro Leadership / Oberlin College / Harper-Grace Hospital / Congress / Department of Political Science / Virginia Randolph Training School / Atlanta City Council / Inter-Racial and Health Board for the Commonwealth of Virginia / U.S. House of Representatives / Howard University / Yale Law School / /
Person
Charles B. Purvis / Cornell Universities / Alice Walker / Coretta Scott King / James Farmer / John H. Johnson / Constance Baker Motley / Damon Keith / Ed Bradley / Thurgood Marshall / Arlam Carr Sr / Ralph Bunche / Reggie Jackson / Johnnie Rebecca Carr / Black History / Arlam Carr Sr. / Ossie Davis / Sonia Sanchez / Ella Fitzgerald / Andrew Young / Henry Louis Gates Jr. Zora / Langston Hughes / Gregory Hines / Henry B. Northup / Hannah Crafts / Frederick Douglass / Rosa Parks / Viola Liuzzo / A. Philip Randolph / Charles H. Wright / Virginia Estelle Randolph / Al Jarreau / Harriet E. Wilson / Zora Neale / Virginia Randolph / Eleanor Holmes Norton / Oscar Micheaux / Dorothy I. Height / Lyndon Johnson / Abraham Lincoln / Mother / William Herbert Talbert / Bill Cosby / Carter G. Woodson Charles / Barack Obama / Morgan Freeman / Mae C. Jemison / James Jr. / Solomon Northup / Roy Wilkins / Robin Roberts / Mary B. Talbert / Mary Burnett Talbert / Morris Dees / Martin Luther King Jr. / Benjamin S. Carson / Paul Robeson / Raymond Usher IV / William Elzy / Benjamin E. Mays / Johnnie Rebecca Daniels / John R. Lewis / Poinsette Clark / Sammy Davis Jr. / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar / Whitney Young / Carter Godwin Woodson / Sally / Jackie Robinson / Jane Gates / Henry Louis Gates Jr. / Coleman A. Young / John W. Jones / Carter G. Woodson / Zora Neale Hurston / Duke Universities / /
Position
author / journalist and historian / vice president / physician / General / public school teacher / author / general surgeon and OB/GYN specialist / anthropologist / managing editor / Queen / poet / becoming head / senior chief deputy / carpenter / teacher / leader / practical nurse / attorney general / senior attending physician / circus musician / president / ever elected mayor / deputy whip / first field officer / head / Advocate / King / congressman / school teacher / one of the founders / assistant / undersecretary / emeritus attending physician / national model / dean / official magazine / insurance salesman / Governor / chairman / writer / chair / field officer / singer and activist / Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teacher / assistant clinical professor / Vice President of the NAACP / member / teacher in Henrico County / Delegate / general American history / the Vice President of the NAACP’s Charleston branch / /
ProvinceOrState
Ohio / Louisiana / Kashmir / South Carolina / Tennessee / Arkansas / West Virginia / Alabama / New York / Loudon County / Michigan / Missouri / Rhode Island / Mississippi / Georgia / Henrico County / Florida / North Carolina / /
PublishedMedium
The Crisis / the New York Times Magazine / /
Region
West Africa / Middle East / Caribbean / West Virginia / /
SportsEvent
NBA / /
SportsLeague
Ivy League / /
TVShow
Their Eyes Were Watching God / The Oprah Winfrey Show / 60 Minutes / Finding Your Roots / /
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