Mary McLeod Bethune, known as the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ also sought to unify the African diaspora
In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...
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Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi Persisted – And Helped End Mass Incarceration of Japanese Americans
Mitsuye Endo Tsutsumi didn’t set out to be a civil rights hero. And she didn’t promote herself as one. But she played a key role in ending the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans – many of them U ...
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Three heroes, 80 years ago, echo today
Three rural Americans risked their lives to help save Europe from tyranny 80 years ago. The nation should remember them as it ...
York WWII vet, 100, to finally get his Purple Heart 80 years after his plane was shot down
Harold "Bud" Pressel was injured when he bailed from his B-24 after it was struck by flak over enemy lines in 1944. He's ...