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Black History Month

Joseph W. Hatchett

Know Our Names: The Story of Joseph W. Hatchett

Ronnesha Rodgers | Feb 8, 2018

Coming from a poor family in a segregated area in Clearwater, Hatchett achieved his dream of becoming a lawyer. Though many obstacles stood in his way, Hatchett never gave up on his dream. In 1956,...

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Malcolm X

Know Our Names: The Story of Malcolm X

Ronnesha Rodgers | Feb 7, 2018

Different from other African-American leaders during his time, Malcolm X served his community as  a minister, activist and black nationalist leader. Malcolm X’s father, Earl Little, was a prominent...

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Claudette Colvin

Know Our Names: The Story of Claudette Colvin

Ronnesha Rodgers | Feb 6, 2018

Before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, there was Claudette Colvin’s protest. In 1955, months before Rosa Parks, Colvin was on a bus in Alabama, where she refused to give up her seat to a...

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Thurgood Marshall

Know Our Names: The Story of Thurgood Marshall

Ronnesha Rodgers | Feb 5, 2018

He became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice just 13 years after the monumental case that called for the desegregation of schools. He was the lawyer in one of Supreme Court’s most well-known...

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Jesse Jackson

Know Our Names: The Story of Jesse Jackson

Ronnesha | Feb 4, 2018

It was 1965 in Selma, Alabama when Jesse Jackson joined a peaceful protest alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Protestors were marching from Selma to Montgomery when state troopers began to brutally...

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Al Sharpton

Know Our Names: The Story of Rev. Al Sharpton

Ronnesha Rodgers | Feb 3, 2018

Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr., better known as Reverend Al Sharpton, served as a prominent civil rights leader during his lifetime. He is a civil rights activist, a minister, radio and television host,...

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Know Our Names: The Story of Coretta Scott King

Know Our Names: The Story of Coretta Scott King

Ronnesha Rodgers | Feb 2, 2018

She was more than the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King was an activist, an author and a civil rights leader. Establishing her own career as an activist, Coretta worked closely...

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 Eartha White (left) and her mother Clara White (right).

Know Our Names: The Story of Eartha White

Ronnesha Rodgers | Feb 1, 2018

A humanitarian, philanthropist, opera singer and businesswoman, Eartha White accomplished more in her lifetime than most. Born in Jacksonville 11 years after the Civil War, White attend college in...

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