Social Justice
The pursuit of a fair and equitable society in which all individuals have equal access regardless of race, gender, income, or background.
Upcoming Events
September 22 … Betty Reid Soskin was a historian, activist, songwriter, and National Park Service ranger whose life embodied American…
September 22 … The Emancipation Proclamation — officially Proclamation 95 — was a pivotal wartime decree that reshaped the moral…
September 22 … James Lawson — minister, theologian, and civil rights strategist — profoundly shaped the modern Civil Rights Movement…
September 23 … Amzie Moore was an American civil rights leader and entrepreneur in the Mississippi Delta who helped lead…
September 23 … Ruth Hartley Mosley was a pioneering activist whose remarkable contributions to civil rights, healthcare, and social justice…
September 24 … The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students whose courage in integrating a previously all-white high…
September 25 … bell hooks was an influential author, cultural critic, educator, and social activist whose writings on race, gender,…
September 28 … David Walker (Abolitionist) was born a free Black person on September 28, 1796 in Wilmington, NC. He…
September 29 … The National Urban League (NUL) is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in…
October … The Colored American (GA) was the first African American newspaper in the post-Civil War South and it played…