Browsing: African American

Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, Ida B. Wells bought a first-class ticket for the ladies’ compartment…

Black people have every right to make demands on Obama, because they gave him a greater percentage of their votes than any other group; and his presidency is owed to them

My father dropped out of school in the eighth grade and went to work as a laborer in the mills of Western Pennsylvania to help support his family. Later, he mastered the craft of cutting meat and became a butcher.