The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...
On Washington, do not just accept my word on how bad his judgment on race relations was. Just take the comments from his contemporary, W.E.B. Du Bois, who was also the founder of the NAACP. Dubois ...
Booker T. Washington was one of the most powerful African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century. Born a slave in Hale's Ford, Virginia, the son of a white man who did not acknowledge him ...