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#InContext: Martin Luther King Jr.
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
#InContext: A. Philip Randolph
“Freedom is never granted, it is won. Justice is never given, it is exacted.” -A. Philip Randolph Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a civil rights...
#InContext: Congressman John Lewis
"Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest....
#InContext: Dorothy Day
“People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast...
#InContext: Cleo Wade
“No one nominated Harriet Tubman to her purpose, to her courage, to her mission. She did not say 'I am not a congressperson or the president, so how...
#InContext: Frederick Douglass
“Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never did and it never will.” - Frederick Douglass Letter to Gerrit Smith, 30 March 1849...
#InContext: Bell Hooks
Born on September 25, 1952, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and raised in a racially segregated South, Bell Hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins) grew...
#InContext: Barbara Jordan
Born in Texas during 1936, Barbara Jordan, the first black congresswoman from the South, grew up during the Jim Crow Era. Barbara was known...
#InContext Malcolm X
Malcolm X (1925 – 1965) embodied the true meaning of resilience, leadership, and transformation. At a time when African Americans experienced racial...
#InContext: Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917, to Mississippi sharecroppers. She was the youngest of 20 children. At the young age of six, she...
#InContext: Eleanor Roosevelt
From 1933 to 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt served as the First Lady of the United States alongside her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt....