Black and Education

Let's explore the man who laid the foundation for Dr. King and his family in Atlanta.

Fannie Lou Hamer was a remarkable woman. Let's explore her early beginnings in life, her days fighting to register to vote, her time being beaten in jail and her famous speech during the Democratic National Convention, in 1964.

Ida B. Wells wrote about several incidences in Georgia, in 1899. This is an excerpt of the murders of several men, who were tied together in a warehouse, awaiting trial the next morning on the accusation of arson. “That the awful story of their slaughter may not be considered overdrawn, the following description is taken from the columns of the Atlanta Journal , as it was written by Royal Daniel,...

Selina and Thornton Gray should be best know for what they did for their family, not for anything they did for Robert E. Lee or George Washington’s legacy.

Who was Jan Ernst Matzeliger and what did he invent? Find out now.

What was Granville T. Woods famous for? What did he invent and where can his impact be felt today?

John Parker was born in 1827 in Norfolk, VA. He was enslaved and was sold at the age of 8, from Virginia to Mobile, AL. Imagine what is was like for an…

Adam Daniel Williams was a catalyst for his grandson's actions and laid the foundation for him in many ways.

Who was Phillis Wheatley? Where was she born? How did she get the name Phillis? All this and more are covered in this episode.

Elias Camp Morris was a fierce leader of the National Baptist Convention for 27 years. He helped to bring that organization to further prominence through his leadership, publishing efforts and strong support for educational institutions, including some colleges that are still around today.

September 14, 1924, the American Baptist College opened its doors. Like some other historically Black colleges, the American Baptist College got its start from a religious organization.

Allen University was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in 1870.  It’s hard for me to think of another institution (outside of the Federal Government) that has supported and established more institutions of higher learning than the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It cannot be overstated that the AME Church had a lasting and phenomenal impact on the lives of many Black Amer...

Alcorn State University was founded in 1871. It offered higher education to areas where none might not have been available to many people in rural Mississippi, but its greatest testament is shared by those who graced its halls, namely Hiram Revels and Medgar Evers.

Albany State University was founded in 1903 with rich traditions and a long history, its stories are best told through the experiences of the people who lived them.

Alabama State University was active in several ways at the end of the Civil War, when it was founded, and at the dawn of the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Alabama A&M University offers educational opportunities to students seeking to kickoff their careers.

Sir if this is founded in truth, I apprehend you will readily embrace every opportunity to eradicate that train of absurd and false ideas and opinions which so generally prevails with respect to us, and that your Sentiments are concurrent with mine, which are that one universal Father hath given being to us all, and that he hath not only made us all of one flesh, but that he hath also without part...

When I think about Sally Hemings and her mother, Elizabeth Hemings, I think about the words “Me too!”

Dr. Olivia J. Hooker was a clinical psychologist, a professor of psychology, one of the first African-American women to serve in the U.S. Coast Guard and a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre in 1921.

For the few Blacks who were able to get homes, their homes “may have” risen in value, but so much of the money surrounding the housing industry was going to white people who were profiting off of a segregated area.

“They went from there across the railroad into what is known as Darktown and Brooklyn; they had sent a committee to remove all the white women and their children down town, where they had prepared a guard to keep them secure. They marched through the streets protected by these military and citizen regulators, perfectly safe.”

Once the supporters of white supremacy in New Hanover County (Wilmington, NC) gained the desired victories on election day, November 8, 1898, they were not finished. There were other offices in the city they wanted such as mayor of the city, chief of police and aldermen—even though those positions were not on the ballot or up for change.

“There is little doubt that if a Republican ticket is brought out for county offices, the situation here will become more serious than ever. The Democrats, have carried out their part of the arrangement with the Governor by changing their candidates for the lower House of Legislature, and they are furious over the talk of a Negro county ticket.”

I, for one, am unsatisfied with the hope of an ultimate “political” solution sometime in the indefinite future while, in the meantime, countless children unjustifiably receive inferior educations that "may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.”

In the creation of this healthier public sentiment, the Afro-American can do for himself what no one else can do for him. The world looks on with wonder that we have conceded so much and remain law-abiding under such great outrage and provocation. To Northern capital and Afro-American labor the South owes its rehabilitation. If labor is withdrawn