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1. Cairo, Illinois USA Historically, Cairo was a thriving city. People thought Cairo was going to be what Chicago is now. It is located at the southern tip of Illinois (Ohio and Mississippi rivers), so it was perfect for river trade. Cairo's history is what makes it u...
2. Malcolm X Malcolm X was a militant leader of the Nation of Islam, a Black Muslim organization, in the 1950s and early 1960s. In contrast to other black religious leaders of that time who espoused pacifism, he called for achieving equality “by any means n...
3. Coretta Scott King Wife of assassinated civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and mother of four.  Influential in the civil right movement of the 1960s, Coretta Scott King remained active until her death in 2006.
4. Dr Martin Luther King Jr American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King’s challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s help...
5. Jackie Robinson: The Story of an American Hero On April 15th, 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson stepped onto a baseball diamond in Brooklyn, New York. Photo credit: J.R. Eyerman Buy at AllPosters.com That was a few years after African-American soldiers came home from defending America and freedom i...
6. Lizzie Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton, along with Lucretia C. Mott and Susan B. Anthony, was an early leader of the women’s rights movement. She and Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton served as its president until 1890. She persu...
7. Hank Aaron Hank Aaron, born in 1934, American baseball player, nicknamed Hammerin’ Hank, whose 755 home runs broke the all-time record previously held by Babe Ruth. Aaron was noted for his remarkable consistency. Although he led the league in home runs on...
8. Maya Angelou Maya Angelou is an American poet, memoirist, actress.
9. Gay Art Here I am posting art I have created over the years from the gay, GLBT, LGBT, Queer (or whatever the catch phrase of the week is) community. The art shown here encompases some of my gay community themed art created from about 1990 upto curre...
10. Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell is an American economist, political writer, and commentator. His books about the economy and the political system have been and are the basis of many public discussions of today's systems. Now some of these very interesting books are al...
11. Focus On The Family Focus On The Family articles, snippets, and minutiae. A lens devoted to my favorite anecdotes and articles on family, parenting, and children. Most articles are from the Dr. James Dobson's Focus On The Family organization. Read on a enjoy these treas...
12. Woolworth's : A Needless Lesson in Nostalgia Okay, so it's a little goofy, but growing up, I remember going to Woolworth's and getting Garbage Pail Kids. I remember that strange smell of old plastic that always permeated the place. And if recent searches on the internet are any indication, I'm...
13. Rosa Parks? Sojourner Truth traveled to the South o tthe free slaves. Rosa Parks stayed right where she was, with her bottom firmly on a bus seat until it was forcibly removed, to start the next liberation of blacks, women and ultimately all people. During the...
14. Harriet Tubman When escaping slaves fled extreme cruelty at the hands of their masters, Harriet Tubman could be counted on to help guide them on their perilous journey to freedom. During the mayhem of the Civil War, she helped escaping slaves navigate their path to...
15. How To Hire A Woman Hiring Women | How to hire female employees. Everything ya need to know about hiring a woman employee. By the way, this is from an article published in the July 1943 issue of Transportation Magazine!
16. Activist Cesar Estrada Chavez In 1962 César Chávez helped form the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers of America. Chávez organized the formerly powerless migrant farmworkers of California and forced growers to pay be...
17. David Horowitz: Author and Civil Rights Activist David Horowitz is a nationally known author and lifelong civil rights activist. He was one of the founders of the New Left in the 1960s and editor of its largest magazine, Ramparts. In the 1970s he created the Oakland Community Learning Center, an in...
18. Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama and is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2007 census, the Birmingham-Hoover Metro Area has a population of 1,108,210. A larger geographical area that makes up what is known as Greater Birm...
19. The Nixon Strategy of the 1968 Election The Southern Strategy was designed by the Republican Party to ensure that former Vice-President Richard Nixon would win the election of 1968 against Democratic candidate Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey. The political atmosphere of the mid to late s...
20. Human Rights Day Poverty is a cause and a product of human rights violations. It is this double edge that makes poverty probably the gravest human rights challenge in the world. The links between human rights and poverty should be obvious : People whose rights are de...