“Lift Every Voice and Sing” was first publicly performed by 500 school children in Jacksonville, Florida. Later, the NAACP adopted the song as the Black National Anthem. The lyrics spoke out against racism and Jim Crow laws.| Zinn Education Project
Teaching Activity. By Jesse Hagopian. 2025. 40 pages. This lesson explores major examples of laws passed to suppress Black education in the wake of major victories for the Black Freedom Struggle, highlighting the historical context and motivations behind these legislative efforts.| Zinn Education Project
Montgomery Bus Boycott| Zinn Education Project
Mary McLeod Bethune pictured with President Harry S. Truman, Madame Vijaya Pandit, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche National Archives| www.nps.gov
About James Weldon Johnson| jamesweldonjohnson.emory.edu
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, suffragist, activist, and researcher.| National Women's History Museum