A century after Black History Month began, Huntsville honors six Black suffragists whose courage laid the foundation for the Civil Rights Movement.
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Silver Hill Rosenwald School – Celia Love and her husband, Adolphus, donated the land for the Silver Hill Rosenwald School, built in Mullins Flat, on land later purchased by the military for Redstone Arsenal. This one-room schoolhouse gave Black students in the Mullins Flat community a first through eighth-grade education. (Historic Huntsville Foundation)Dora Fackler Lowery, an early Black suffragist in Huntsville, later became the mother of civil rights leader Dr. Joseph Lowery, linking early voting rights activism to the modern Civil Rights Movement. (Historic Huntsville Foundation)India Herndon was an educator who taught at William Hooper Councill High School. She and her husband, A. J. Herndon, owned Citizens Drug Store. (Historic Huntsville Foundation)
