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Discover How Four Black College Students Sparked a Nationwide Civil Rights Movement, on This Date in 1960
On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college freshmen walked up to the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and changed the course of history. Joseph ...
How George E. Johnson Turned a Haircare Company Into an Engine for Social and Economic Power in the Black Community.
In his new book, Afro Sheen, the legendary founder of the Johnson Products Company chronicles his creation of a business empire that spanned the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights movement and the rise of ...