News from communities around Los Angeles
September 6, 1866
Abolitionist and newspaper publisher Frederick Douglass becomes the first black person invited to serve as a delegate at a political convention in the United States.
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September 27, 1950 Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African-American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry, “Annie Allen,” a coming-of-age tale […]
Feb. 12, 1909 Educator W.E.B. DuBois is one of 60-plus activists who form the NAACP to fight for racial equality for black Americans. As editor […]
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and his two nonprofit organizations, People United to Save Humanity and the National Rainbow Coalition, launched a national boycott against organizations […]