Edward R. Dudley was the United States’ first Black ambassador, serving in Liberia under the Truman administration. Before ...

Learn more about "Doc" Jones, his time with the Navy, his family, and the start of the Amarillo Branch of the NAACP.

This month we take the opportunity to celebrate the life and legacy of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American on the United States Supreme Court. Associate Justice Marshall’s remarkable career ...

A significant figure in the Civil Rights movement and a historic federal judge, Constance Baker Motley remains largely ...

He was the kind of defiant, well-schooled, experienced attorney that Nevada needed at that time,” a historian said.

In fact, New York City schools have even been called some of the most segregated school districts in the nation, particularly ...

Black History Month began in 1926 as ‘Negro History Week’, founded by historian Carter G. Woodson to highlight the overlooked ...

Local Chattanooga attorney Maurice Weaver was brought into the case to represent the 25 defendants, and is featured in the ...

Walter White and the NAACP,' an American Experience film about an overlooked titan of the civil rights movement.

For many years, Juanita Jackson Mitchell's law office sat on the corner of Druid Hill Avenue, the 1200 block. Dr. Hathaway says the street carries historical importance standing at the center of the ...

Roxborough has worked with the NAACP for over 70 years ... and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. About Eaddy, ...

Thurgood Marshall stands as one of America's most influential legal minds, world knew as "Mr. Civil Rights," led to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education.