2021 Black History

2021 Black History

Honoring Leaders Who Inspired & Changed The Nation Shirley ChisholmFormer Congresswoman Sworn into office January 1969. She was the first African American woman elected to Congress; the first to serve as Secretary of the Democratic Caucus and the first to run for...
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, in the United States, holiday (third Monday in January) honoring the achievements of Martin Luther King, Jr. A Baptist minister who advocated the use of nonviolent means to end racial segregation, he first came to national prominence...