Forgotten Black History

Welcome to "Forgotten Black History" is a YouTube channel were we talk about places, events and people in Black History, This page serves as an index to the prominent African figures featured throughout the Black History society. Black history is the story of African people everywhere in the worl...

OJ Simpson preliminary hearing from July 1st, 1994. (Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell, Robert Shapiro, William Hodgman, Marcia Clark, Testimony From Witness Karen Lee Crawford, Testimony From Witness Stewart Tanner, Testimony From Witness Pablo Fenjves, Gerald Uelmen, Raw, Uncut)

Six-day preliminary hearing ends with Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell ruling there is sufficient evidence for O.J. Simpson to stand trial on two counts of first-degree murder. O.J. pleads "absolutely 100 percent not guilty" to the charges.

By Any Means Necessary is one of Malcolm X's most well known and remembered speeches. It entered the popular civil rights culture through a speech given by Malcolm X at the Organization of Afro-American Unity founding rally on June 28, 1964 in the last year of his life

Huey Percy Newton was an African-American revolutionary, notable as founder of the Black Panther Party. Newton crafted the Party's ten-point manifesto with Bobby Seale in 1966.

STOKELY CARMICHAEL, “BLACK POWER” speech (1966)

In November 1964, Malcolm X ended a tour of Africa, where he had passed through a dozen different states. Instead of returning directly to the United States, he travelled first to Paris and then the UK. There he took part in a debate at the Oxford Union Society in one of his final public appearan...

MALCOLM X SPEECH AT THE FOUNDING RALLY OF THE ORGANIZATION OF Black UNITY

Revered as one of the most influential people of the twentieth century, Rosa Parks is best known for her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956. Parks was born on February 4, 1913, to Leona and James McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama. Leona worked as a teacher and James as a carpenter. Parks was ...

Joe Coe, whose official name was George Smith, was an African-American man who lived in Omaha, Nebraska. Coe was a married father of two children and worked as a porter at a railroad company. Coe resided on North 12th Street, which was north of downtown Omaha.

To Feed Our Children

The Free Breakfast for School Children is about to cover the country and be initiated in every chapter and branch of the Black Panther Party. This program was created because the Black Panther Party understands that our children need a nourishing breakfast every morning so t...

Malcolm X on the Liberal and Conservative Political Establishment

Dick Gregory, comedian, actor, and civil rights activist, was born Richard Claxton Gregory in 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri. Gregory’s father left the family when Gregory was a child forcing his mother, Lucille, a maid, to raise him and his five siblings. During his high school years Gregory join...