(BPRW) Black History Milestones: Timeline, Part 2 (1900 - 1964)

Published on February 5, 2022

(Black PR Wire) Washington, Carver & Du Bois, 1900 As the 19th century came to an end and segregation took ever stronger hold in the South, many African Americans saw self-improvement, especially through education, as the single greatest opportun

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(BPRW) Black History Milestones: Timeline, Part 1 (1619 - 1896)

February 5, 2022
(Black PR Wire) In August of 1619, a journal entry recorded that “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia and were then were bought by English colonists.The date and the story of

(BPRW) Black History Milestones: Timeline, Part 3 (1965 - 1995)

February 5, 2022
(Back PR Wire) Selma to Montgomery March, March 1965In early 1965, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) made Selma, Alabama, the focus of its efforts to register Black voters in the South. Alabama’s governo