Barack Obama made history by becoming the 44th president and the first African-American president of the United States. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Obama returned to the city of Chicago...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...