My First Visit to The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama This Christmas season brought me to Montgomery, Alabama, a city steeped in the history of America’s struggle for civil rights. My stepfather, currently studying at the Air War College as part of his service in...
The Power of One Voice: Lessons from the Greensboro Four Introduction: The Courage to Step Forward In 1960, four young men in Greensboro, North Carolina, sat down at a Woolworth’s lunch counter, defying the entrenched segregation of the Jim Crow South. Their peaceful...
The Guardian After completing his undergraduate studies at Clark College in Atlanta, GA, James Felder served in the United States Army’s Honor Guard Ceremonial Unit in Washington, DC. This honor was bestowed upon him as one of only ten Black Americans to serve...
The Photographer Cecil Williams, who served as the official photographer for both Claflin University and South Carolina State, watched as Black students gathered in protest around the All-Star Bowling alley in Orangeburg, SC, 1968. Although racial segregation in...
The Youth Leader At 16 years old in 1962, LeRoy “Zke” Zimmerman finished high school and enrolled at South Carolina State University to study Mathematics. During a summer job delivering supplies between the all-white high school in Orangeburg, SC, and his own alma...
