By Greg Bond from the Points History Blog: On August 6, 1894, Abraham D. Cecil, an African American painter and interior decorator from Bloomington, Illinois, visited the drugstore of Hamer H. Green and ordered a glass of cherry phosphate soda…. Read More ›
From History News Network by Marc Perrusquia author of A Spy in Canaan: How the FBI Used a Famous Photographer to Infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement: Bobby Doctor understood the movement came with peril. Eagerly, he dodged fists and boots while… Read More ›