Author Archives: davismal

For this museum I will be analyzing African American accomplishments and different types of activism from the Reconstruction Era all the way through the first African American woman campaigning for… Read more »

The Monthly Review and Religious Magazine, newspaper (1870) The article above focuses on Hiram Revels who was the first African American Senator. Senator Revels replaced Jefferson Davis and this was viewed… Read more »

  Railroad Concourse in Jacksonville, Florida (1921)  The image above depicts a group of African Americans at a railroad concourse in Jacksonville, Florida. The train is headed to Newark, New… Read more »

  Brown v Board of Education, (1954) Brown v the Board of Education was the historic Supreme Court ruling that unanimously held that segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection… Read more »

  Malcolm X at NYC Rally (1964) Malcolm X is pictured at the microphone during the NYC rally which called for a boycott of public schools. Most public schools acted… Read more »

Fernandez, Orlando. In Front of 170 W 130 St., March on Washington, L T[o] R Bayard Rustin, Deputy Director, Cleveland Robinson, Chairman of Administrative Committee. August 7, 1963. Library of… Read more »