African American Heritage

Monroe Nathan Work, a leading early 20th Century sociologist, was born on August 15, 1866, to his ex-slave parents in Iredell County, North Carolina.

BYLAWS North Carolina Congress of Colored Parents and Teahers, Inc." (As amended at the Annual Convention, November 1953, in Kinston, N.C.)

In 1913 educator Booker T. Washington and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald devised a matching grant program to help build black schools in the South.

American author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black Liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history.