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Biography

The First African American Physician

  • Activism
  • Education
  • Health
  • Science
  • Slavery & Abolition, 1800-1860
Illustration of school building
Freedom and Liberty are [not] synonymes. . . . Freedom is the gift of God; Liberty, the creature of society. Liberty may be taken away from a man; but, on whatsoever soul Freedom may alight, the course of that soul is thenceforth onward and upward . . . .
Photograph of Homer G. Philips hospital and students
Community Story

Homer G. Phillips Hospital and School of Nursing

  • Education
People waiting in line to vote
Present to Past

Legislating Rights

  • Activism
A black and white photograph of Esau Jenkins, Alfred Fields, and Rev. Willis Goodwin, holding each other outside of A Citizens Committee vban.
Historic Event

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

  • Activism