List/Grid Monthly Archives: August 2010
Eloise Bibb
Eloise Bibb (1878-1928?), the daughter of Catherine Adele and Charles H. Bibb was seventeen when she made her literary debut with Poems (1895), published by Monthly Review Press in Boston….
Bobby Seale
Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, cofounded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, in 1966. Seale, Bobby (b. October 22, 1936, Dallas, Tex.), political and social activist in the 1960s,…
Cleaver, Eldridge Leroy
Cleaver, Eldridge Leroy, (1935-1998), African American writer, political activist, and former minister of information for the Black Panther Party. Cleaver was born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas. After growing up in Wabbaseka…
Huey P. Newton
Newton, Huey P. (b. February 17, 1942, New Orleans, La.; d. August 22, 1989, Oakland, Calif.), cofounder of the American black nationalist organization, the Black Panther Party. Huey Newton grew…
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing September 15, 1963
On September 15 1963 at 10:22am, a bomb went off in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls. It was a seminal act of cowardice. And…
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer, highly publicized campaign in the Deep South to register blacks to vote during the summer of 1964. During the summer of 1964, thousands of activists in the Civil…
Civil Rights Timeline
Separate drinking fountains for whites and blacks. "Colored balconies" in movie theaters. Seats in the back of the bus. Soldiers called out to protect little children who were trying to…
March on Washington, 1963
March on Washington, 1963, massive public demonstration that articulated the goals of the Civil Rights Movement. The 1963 March on Washington attracted an estimated 250,000 people for a peaceful demonstration…
Civil War Events: 1861 – 1863
Introduction: The American Civil War (1861–1865), among other names also known as the War Between the States, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave…
Civil War Events: 1863 – 1865
Introduction: The American Civil War (1861–1865), among other names also known as the War Between the States, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave…
Civil War: Momentum for Abolitionism
The arguments of Northern abolitionists gained ground as the war continued, in part because of the value of slaves to the South but also because Northerners were stunned at the…
Black Civil War Soldiers
For Northern blacks, however, the Emancipation Proclamation represented an enormous victory, and many urged their sons to enlist. In Massachusetts, abolitionist governor John A. Andrew immediately mustered a regiment of…
Civil War: Economic Causes
Since its settlement, the southern United States had received most of its income from farming, which depended heavily on slave labor. By 1860 cotton—King Cotton, as it became known—was the…
Civil War: Path to War
The country was further stirred by the serial publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Published as a book in 1852, the antislavery novel was widely read in the…
Civil War: The Last Years
Toward the end of the war, Republican abolitionists were concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation would be viewed as a war act and thus unconstitutional once fighting ended. They were also…
Civil War: The Defeat
Toward the end of the war, the Confederacy debated whether to enlist slaves as soldiers and, if so, whether slave-soldiers should be granted their freedom. In early 1865 the Confederate…
Africa: Climate
The climate of Africa, more than that of any other continent, is generally uniform. This results from the position of the continent in the Tropical Zone, the impact of cool…
Africa: 1990 Demography
Although Africa covers about one-fifth of the total world land surface, it has only about 12 percent of its population. In 1990 the total population of the continent was estimated…
