Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Crusader for Justice

Long before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus, a young school teacher refused to move from the Ladies Car on the train on t...

Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans

Actually there are two women who can claim that title, a mother and daughter, both named Marie Laveau. Very little is known about the first...

Lucy Parsons - An American Revolutionary

Lucy Parson (1853-1942) was an early activist of color, one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, the ‘wobblies’); an...