Murray Dude Ranch in Apple Valley, California was purchased in 1922 by a black couple named Nolie and Lela Murray. The Murrays bought the 40-acre spread for $100. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/37238
Malcolm Burnley, a 22-year old student at Brown University, recently stumbled upon a civil rights artifact lost in time. Burnley discovered the recording of a speech made by civil rights leader Malcolm X. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/37196
Born Malcolm Little in 1925, the man the world later know as Malcolm X or even El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, helped spur the growth of Islam and Black nationalism in America in the 1960s thanks largely to his supreme oratorial gifts. The former spokesman for the Nation of Islam, largely considered one of the nation’s most […]
The African American Library at the Gregory School is the newest of three special collections operated by the Houston Public Library. Located in Houston’s historic Freedman’s Town, the Library is housed in what was once the Edgar M. Gregory School, which served as the first public school for African Americans in Houston. As the first […]
