by LaKisha | Feb 6, 2020 | Black History
Dr. Vernon Johns was an American minister, born in Virginia in 1892. He graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary and College in 1915 (AB) and earned a BD from Oberlin College three years later. He was a minister at several black churches in the South and a pioneer...
by LaKisha | Feb 1, 2020 | Black History
On March 2, 1955, a 15-year-old high school student attending Booker T. Washington High School named Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. She, not Rosa Parks, was the first to refuse her seat to a...
