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Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Trish Thomas
Principal & Lead Strategist at Akamai Strategy, Founder of Lark Builders
March 12, 2016
I just had the privilege of discovering this beautiful letter from a father to a daughter as she stepped into the great unknown. Yolande was the daughter of W.E.B. DuBois and went abroad to a p... See more
Beautiful letter from W.E.B. DuBois to his daughter Yolande
Southern Democrats on Capitol Hill had long been able to count confidently on support for their anti–civil rights stands from conservative Republicans (and not a few Democrats) from midwestern or Mountain States with negligible black populations. During the last two or three years, however, the years of Brown and Till and Lucy and Martin Luther Kin
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
W. E. B. Du Bois
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
King and his colleagues in the movement understood, and they had launched a voting-rights drive in Alabama in the first days of 1965. The flashpoint: Selma, Alabama, the seat of Dallas County. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, a voting-rights march from Selma to Montgomery had barely begun when Alabama state troopers charged a line of nonviolent demonstrat
... See moreJon Meacham • The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
– Dolly Parton