Little Known Black History Facts

Years before the height of the civil rights movement, A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first Black labor union, and Grant Reynolds a pastor, politician and civil rights activist, boldly stood up to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. At a March 22, 1948 meeting, the leaders called […]

Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States, addressed the NAACP on this day in 1947. President Truman was the first sitting president to address the organization and is viewed as the nation’s first civil rights president. Truman’s speech to the NAACP was aired publicly on radio and took place at the Lincoln […]