The first African American Postmaster of a major postal facility, Henry W. McGee, Sr. was born in Hillsboro, Texas, in 1910, and moved to Chicago in 1927. McGee was the first person to rise from the ranks of letter carriers to achieve the status of ...
Posted Sunday, February 16th 2014 at 3:53PM
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Henry Jay Lewis (October 16, 1932 – January 26, 1996) was an African-American double-bassist and orchestral conductor.
Originally from Los Angeles, California, Lewis attended The University of Southern California and at age 16, joined the Los Ange ...
Posted Saturday, February 15th 2014 at 2:34PM
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Morehouse College is one of ten historically black colleges and universities in Georgia. Located a few miles from downtown Atlanta in the historic West End district, Morehouse is one of only five all-male colleges in the United States and the only on ...
Posted Friday, February 14th 2014 at 10:41AM
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Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster prison at 4.14pm on February 11, 1990, after spending 27 years in detention under the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Accompanied by his then wife Winnie, Mr. Mandela waved to crowds and smile ...
Posted Tuesday, February 11th 2014 at 3:05PM
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Charles W. Follis, a.k.a. "The Black Cyclone," (February 3, 1879 – April 5, 1910) was the first black professional football player. He played for the Shelby Blues of the "Ohio League" from 1902 to 1906. On September 16, 1904, Follis signed a contract ...
Posted Monday, February 10th 2014 at 3:21PM
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Joseph Charles Price was born in Elizabeth City, N.C. on Feb. 10, 1854. Emily Paulin, his mother, was born a free African American woman and his father, Charles Dozier, was a slave. During Slavery the child always followed the status of the mother. ...
Posted Sunday, February 9th 2014 at 4:46PM
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On Feb. 8, 1986, the Oprah Winfrey Show became nationally syndicated. Her very first show featured the topic “How to Marry the Man or Woman of Your Choice.” Interestingly, that was not the first choice as guest for the day. Producers had worked ...
Posted Saturday, February 8th 2014 at 7:30PM
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Latasha Harlins (July 14, 1975 – March 16, 1991) was a 15-year-old African-American girl who was unlawfully shot and killed by Soon Ja Du, a 51-year-old Korean store owner. Harlins was a student at Westchester High School in Los Angeles. Because Harl ...
Posted Friday, February 7th 2014 at 6:34PM
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James McCune Smith was born April 18, 1813. He was an African American physician and abolitionist.
From New York City, he received his early education at the African Free School. Though his academic credentials were exceptional, Smith was effectiv ...
Posted Wednesday, February 5th 2014 at 7:49PM
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress later called “the first lady of civil rights”, and “the mother of the freedom movement”.
On December 1, 1955 in ...
Posted Tuesday, February 4th 2014 at 4:31PM
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Louis Charles Roudanez was born in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, to Louis Roudanez, a French merchant, and Aimee Potens, a free woman of color. Listed as white on his baptismal registry, Roudanez was baptized as Catholic by the president of the Colleg ...
Posted Monday, February 3rd 2014 at 12:28PM
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Marie VanBrittan Brown, Home Security Inventor
While home security systems today are more advanced than ever, back in 1966 the idea for a home surveillance device seemed almost unthinkable.
That was the year famous African-American inventor Ma ...
Posted Sunday, February 2nd 2014 at 4:27PM
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