Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and one of the most influential leaders of the modern civil rights movement. His national leadership began in December 1955 during the Montgomery Bus Boycott and continued until his assassination in April 1968. King is best known for…
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an interracial human rights organization. The mission of the organization was to abolish segregation and discrimination. It was founded in 1909 by a group of people including W.E.B. DuBois, Ida Bell,…
The National Urban League is a civil rights organization that advocates for African American rights, fighting against racial discrimination. The Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negros was founded in 1910 by Ruth Standish Baldwin and Dr. George Edmund Hayes and it merged with…
Michael Babatunde Olatunji was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist, and recording artist whose work transformed global understandings of African music and culture in the twentieth century. While he later became internationally known for landmark recordings such as…
