Descendants Of Black Civil Rights Leaders And Icons Gather For Historic Celebration At The White House

Essence Magazine:

Tom Williams via Getty Images By Melissa Noel ·Updated February 16, 2024

The descendants of some of the most well-known civil rights activists of the 1950s and 1960s and other prominent historical leaders gathered at the White House for a special celebration of Black History this week. 

Attendees included the families of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Sally Hemings, Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Emmett Till.

They were greeted

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