

1960s to 1970s - Five on the Black Hand Side: Origins and Evolutions of the Dap
Five on the Black Hand Side is a project exploring gestural languages that were born in African American communities during the 1960s and...


1960s - Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
Stokely Carmichael, original name of Kwame Ture, (born June 29, 1941, Port of Spain, Trinidad—died November 15, 1998, Conakry, Guinea),...


1960s - GLORIA RICHARDSON
Gloria Richardson (born 1922) was a civil rights activist and leader of the Cambridge Movement in Cambridge, Maryland, in the 1960s....


1960s - 13 Unexpected Things Most People Don't Know About Malcolm X
Malcolm X was a civil rights activist, Muslim minister, and one of the most consequential people in American history. He was also a...


1960s onward - Jessie Jackson
Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights leader, Baptist minister and politician who twice ran for U.S. president. Who Is Jesse Jackson?...


1960s onward - Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton is an outspoken and sometimes controversial political activist, working to lead the fight against racial prejudice and...


1960 - Maya Angelou becomes Northern Coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
In the late 1950s, Angelou joined the Harlem Writers Guild, where she met a number of major African American authors, including James...

1960s & 1970s - Young Patriots, Black Panthers and the Rainbow Coalition
Young Patriots* In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, the social movements crossed over into revolutionary territory. The victories and the...


1960s - The enslaved black people of the 1960s who did not know slavery had ended
The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 which changed the status of over 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the South from slave to...


1961 to 1963 - President John F. Kennedy (Democratic Party)
President John F. Kennedy and the African American Revolution . . . When found out that this black steamroller going to come down on the...