today in black history

June 02, 2023

Homer Plessy, a 30 year-old Black shoemaker, is jailed for sitting in the "white" car of a Louisiana railroad on this date in 1892.

Dr. Julianne Malveaux

Celebrating a Civil Rights Icon

Rev. Walter Fauntroy's Final Sermon

The NorthStar Report

POSTED: January 18, 2009, 9:54 am

A community celebrates civil rights icon and former Congressman, Reverend Walter Fauntroy.

Related References

books
media
- Justice for the Central Park Five
  NorthStar Network Editorial from October 2002
- DC Voting Rights
  A NorthStar Network news report on voting rights in the nation's capital
organizations
documents
- Injustice Against African Americans, 2007
  The nation's oldest civil rights organization monitors acts of injustice against Black Americans in 2007
- Economic Empowerment Fact Sheet, 2007
  Nation's oldest civil rights organization looks at economic empowerment issues in the Black community in 2007
- Memo on Poverty, 1964
  A presidential memo from 1964 that looks at the issue of poverty at the height of the War on Poverty
- Reagan National Airport Terminal Map
- Dulles International Airport Terminals

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