Recently, Jay Berry posted an article on mikefarrellsports.com titled: "Deion Sanders Says Honor Legends Now, Not After They're Gone."
Mr. Berry posted the following:...
President Abraham Lincoln, with young son Tad and Senator Charles Sumner, salutes a detachment of African-American Union troops in Richmond, Virginia at the end...
LT. CHARLES HALL
JULY 2
1777—Vermont becomes first U.S. territory to abolish slavery. By 1783, New Hampshire and Massachusetts had followed Vermont’s lead. The abolition...
Blair Underwood Credit: Collin Starks photo
by JULIAN MICHAEL CALDWELL, NY AMSTERDAM NEWS
Readers are transported to the bustling Black community of 1930s Black Bottom...
JUNE 18
1941—Labor and civil rights leader A. Phillip Randolph initially rejects a plea by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to call off the first-ever...
JUNE 11
1963—President John F. Kennedy declares during a nationwide radio and television address that segregation was “morally wrong” and told the U.S. Congress...
