- 2026Sep 6
Jerome “Big Duck” Smith
The Freedom Rider who made Robert Kennedy listen — then spent 58 years teaching New Orleans children the history he survived.
Maggie Lena Walker, the First Black Woman to Charter a U.S. Bank
Learn how Maggie L. Walker became the first Black woman to found and lead a bank in the United States.
Mary McLeod Bethune and Her Monument in Lincoln Park
Hear her story of faith, determination, and unwavering commitment to education and equality.
Homecoming
Learn about the start of HBCUs and their dedication to Black history and future.
Rosa Parks Day
Let's explore the impact of Rosa Parks' resistance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Fred Hampton Aquatic Center
And learn about the history of racial segregation in public pools.
Jackie Robinson Day
And how one baseball game on April 15, 1947 forever changed history.
Ma Collier
Margaret "Ma" Collier became the first Black woman to serve as a military service club hostess and revolutionized entertainment for segregated troops.
Coretta Scott King
Let's explore the roles that King played to leave a lasting legacy.
Marian Anderson
Her powerful contralto voice defined a movement that transformed performance venues and accelerated civil rights reform.
Florynce “Flo” Kennedy
This feminist lawyer combined legal brilliance with theatrical activism to challenge racism to connect civil rights with the women's movement.
Addie L. Wyatt
This UPWA member became the first Black woman to lead major unions, founded CBTU and CLUW, and secured equal pay provisions years before federal law.
The Black Civilian Conservation Corps
Honoring the laborers who built America's parks during the Depression, despite facing segregation and exclusion.
Moranda Smith
This labor organizer united tobacco workers across racial lines and connected workplace rights to broader civil rights struggles.
Shelton Tappes
This pioneering Black labor organizer drafted the first anti-discrimination clause in a major auto union contract.
Donald Galloway
Galloway fought for disability rights and labor rights by challenging discriminatory lawsuits and influencing politics.
Robert Lee Vann
Vann transformed the Pittsburgh Courier into a powerful voice for Black labor rights and helped drive the integration of steel industry unions.
E.D. Nixon
This union organizer and civil rights pioneer bailed out Rosa Parks and helped launch the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Fannie Lou Hamer
While known mainly for her civil rights activism, Hamer was also a labor organizer who fought for agricultural workers' rights.
Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator and Presidential Advisor
Civil rights activist. Educator. Presidential advisor. Nothing was too audacious for Mary McLeod Bethune.
Ernest Calloway
As a labor journalist and organizer, Calloway worked with the Teamsters to integrate trucking unions in the Midwest and documented labor struggles.
Charles S. Hayes
As the Vice President of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Hayes organized Black meatpacking workers and fought for racial integration.
Benjamin Fletcher
One of the most prominent Black members of the Industrial Workers of the World, Fletcher organized Philadelphia dock workers and made history.
Velma Hopkins
Hopkins, a tobacco worker, helped lead one of the most significant labor actions in Southern history.
Stephanie St. Clair
Known as "Madame Queen," St. Clair built an independent Black-owned business empire in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s.
Bayard Rustin
The brilliant strategist who organized many effective civil rights movements while facing discrimination for both his race and his sexuality.
Rosina Tucker
Tucker organized the wives and families of Pullman porters, creating support networks that sustained one of the most important Black labor unions.
William Lucy
Lucy was a powerful force for both labor and civil rights, especially through his role in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike.
Isaac Myers
A labor pioneer who built one of America's first Black-led trade unions in the face of white supremacy.
A. Philip Randolph
From railroad cars to the March on Washington: the visionary who united labor rights and civil rights to transform America.