It has been 150 years since the Civil War ended and yet the American government still has failed to fund a museum dedicated purely to the history of slavery in the nation. Where the government fell short, however, the wealthy descendant of Irish labo ...
Posted Friday, February 27th 2015 at 12:21PM
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Elijah Muhammad was the leader of the Nation of Islam ("Black Muslims") during their period of greatest growth in the mid-twentieth century. He was a major promoter of independent, black-operated businesses, institutions, and religion. Elijah Muhamma ...
Posted Wednesday, February 25th 2015 at 3:08PM
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Born Albert Turner Reid in Hampton, Virginia, November 13, 1927, this world-renowned mathematician earned his bachelor’s degree at Iowa State University in 1949 but never completed a graduate degree in his chosen field. Despite this, he ...
Posted Monday, February 23rd 2015 at 7:40PM
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The Deacons for Defense and Justice were an armed self defense African American civil rights organization in the U.S. Southern states during the 1960s.The organization practiced self-defense methods in the face of racist oppression that was carried o ...
Posted Thursday, February 19th 2015 at 5:25PM
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Fannie Jackson was born a slave in Washington D.C. on October 15, 1837. She gained her freedom when her aunt was able to purchase her at the age of twelve. Through her teen years Jackson worked as a servant for the author George Henry Calvert and in ...
Posted Thursday, February 19th 2015 at 5:11PM
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Some call Venus and Serena Williams two of the greatest female tennis players of all time. While the Williams sisters are one of the most dynamic sibling duos in sports history, they weren't the first African-American siblings to take tennis by ...
Posted Monday, February 16th 2015 at 1:51PM
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Mary Fields was born into slavery in Tennessee in about 1832. She received her freedom when the war ended and slavery was outlawed but she stayed near her original owners, the Dunn family, as she and the Dunns’ daughter had become good friends. ...
Posted Sunday, February 15th 2015 at 5:23PM
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Joseph Searles III (born 1948) was elected as the first African American trader of the New York Stock Exchange.
Joseph Searles III graduated from Kansas State University in 1963 with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science. After graduation ...
Posted Friday, February 13th 2015 at 10:19AM
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Lillian (Evans) Evanti, one of the first African American women to become an internationally prominent opera performer, was born in Washington D.C. in 1891. Evanti was born into a prominent Washington, D.C. family. Her father, Wilson Evan ...
Posted Thursday, February 12th 2015 at 5:30PM
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The Omaha Courthouse Lynching of 1919 The infamous Omaha Courthouse Lynching of 1919 was part of the wave of racial and labor violence that swept the United States during the “Red Summer” of 1919. It was witnessed by an estimated ...
Posted Sunday, February 8th 2015 at 5:56PM
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