Ralph J. Bunche was among a group of young Howard University social scientists who focused on economic-based solutions for racial discrimination.

"I think I've been involved in every issue in the black community on the front lines."(Reginald Booker)

Since the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922, the larger-than-life-size, seated statue of the “Great Emancipator” has witnessed many milestones in the fight for civil rights. The dedication…

In the late 1940s, Barry Farm/Hillsdale native Thelma Dale (later Perkins) quit her government job to become national secretary of the National Negro Congress (NNC) in New York. As a Howard University…

In early 1950, Mary Church Terrell and other activists attempted to eat at Thompson’s Restaurant, a downtown cafeteria and one of many restaurants and eateries with a whites-only policy. The group was…

“If democracy is to live, segregation must die.” (Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, 1956)

"If I'm criticized, then I've been heard." (Willie J. Hardy)

The corner of 14th and U was the grapevine. . . . If you were at that corner, you always had the sense that something big was about to happen.

The distinctive stone building at the apex of Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street was designed and built as a Childs Restaurant in 1925 to attract visitors—white visitors, that is—as they…

“I would prefer to sell to the colored man because he has a so much harder time getting a house.”