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The library preserves historical information about the African-American community in Houston. [91] It is the city's first library to focus on African-American history and culture. [92] W.L.D. Johnson Neighborhood Library is the successor of the former Carnegie Library. [93]
The Houston Defender (Network) is a Black digital information source that originated from the African American newspaper of the same name based in Houston, Texas. Established in 1930 by C.F. Richardson Sr., the newspaper has been a strong voice for the African American community for over 90 years.
The paper criticized Jim Crow laws, sought equal pay for African American teachers, advocated for Houston's Carnegie Library for African Americans, pushed for the hiring of African American postal workers, and opposed segregation. [4] C.N. Love was a leading civil rights activist and advocate for the African American community.
This is a list of African-American activists [1] covering various areas of activism, but primarily focused on those African-Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African-Americans.
Leland was born in Lubbock, Texas to Alice and George Thomas Leland, II. At a very early age, the Lelands moved to Houston's Fifth Ward neighborhood. Growing up in a predominantly African American neighborhood, Leland attended Wheatley High School in Houston, Texas, [1] where he ranked in the top ten percent of his class when he graduated from Wheatley in 1964.
W.E.B. Du Bois was a sociologist and activist who became the first Black person to earn a doctorate from Harvard University. ... Obama became the first Black president in American history after ...
Ruby Bridges is an American activist who helped the civil rights movement in Louisiana. She was the first child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School, an all-white school in Louisiana ...
Lulu (or Lula) Belle Madison White (August 31, 1900 [1] – July 6, 1957) was a teacher and civil rights activist in Texas during the 1940s and 1950s. [2] In 1939, White was named as the president of the Houston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) before becoming executive secretary of the branch in 1943. [3]