by Peggy Hiemer | Feb 13, 2023
Today, February 13th, 2023, we honor Maggie Lena Walker. Maggie organized pre-registration meetings in in 1920 in Richmond, Virginia after the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Those meetings led to a huge voter registration drive for African American women and...
by Peggy Hiemer | Feb 13, 2023
Deadly violence has plagued the African-American quest for racial justice since the end of the civil war. Sadly these insurrections oftentimes resulted in the destruction of Black voting power. We must recognize this true line of violent history of the past to the...
by Peggy Hiemer | Feb 9, 2023
Today, February 8th, 2023, we honor Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who was a journalist, civil rights activist, and suffragist who endlessly fought against racial and sexual discrimination. Biography“Born a slave in 1862, Ida Bell Wells was the oldest daughter of James and...
by Peggy Hiemer | Feb 8, 2023
Today, February 8th, 2022, we honor George H. White, who was a lawyer and a Republican African-American Congressman from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District (1899-1901). The Black massacres of the 1860’s- 1880’s were over voting. While many more...
by Peggy Hiemer | Feb 7, 2023
On February 1st, 2023, we honor Prince Hall of Boston, who was not only a registered voter of his day, but a staunch abolitionist and civil rights activist who used the power of petitions to effectively petition the government to gain rights for Black people. Read the...
