[…] and spent his summers as a military reservist. Upon graduation Logan enlisted in the United States Army in 1942. He also married Mary E. Whitfield from Farmville, North Carolina. They were the parents of two children, Jewel and Frenise Avedis II. While in the […] … Read MoreFrenise Avedis Logan, Sr. (1920-1995)
[…] slave mart kept at the head of Pratt Street, by Austin Woldfolk. His agents were sent into every town and county in Maryland, announcing their arrival, through the papers, and on flaming hand-bills headed “Cash for Negroes.” These men were generally well dressed men, […] … Read More(1852) Frederick Douglass, “What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July”
Thelma Dewitty was the first black teacher to be hired by the Seattle Public Schools. She had been a teacher in Corpus Christi, Texas for 14 years and began her Seattle teaching career in September 1947, after intervention on her behalf by the Seattle Urban … Read More … Read MoreThelma Dewitty (1912-1977)
[…] in the early 1930s. Some black Communist Party members including Detroit, Michigan factory worker Robert N. Robinson, New York attorney William L Patterson, New York schoolteacher Williana Burroughs, and Mississippi-born agricultural specialist Oliver Golden, all arrived at different times and saw themselves playing different […] … Read MoreIn the Land of Czars and Commissars: African Americans in Russia, the Soviet Union, and Post-Soviet Russia, 1824-2015
Carlton D’Metrius Pearson is an American preacher, author, and gospel singer. He was born on March 19, 1953, to the Rev. Adam Louis Pearson and Lillie Ruth Johnson Pearson in San Diego, California. Pearson’s father was the pastor of St. John’s Church of God in … Read More … Read MoreCarlton D’Metrius Pearson (1953- )
The Golden 14 were the first Black women to muster into the United States Navy. First recognized by scholar Kelly Miller in his 1919 book “Kelly Miller’s History of the World War for Human Rights,” but subsequently nearly lost to history after the war, the … Read More … Read MoreThe Golden 14 (1918-1919)
[…] to Alfonzo Spencer, a disabled career Army mechanic, and Selma Gaines Spencer. After graduating from Central High School in Prince George’s County, Maryland, Spencer voluntarily enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1971. As a clerk at Pope Air Force Base in North […] … Read MoreLarry Oneil Spencer (1954- )
[…] Charleston, South Carolina around 1820 and was purchased during his youth by ironworker Clark Mills, who owned a foundry located in Bladensburg, Maryland. Mills quickly recognized Reid’s skills in ironworking and included him as an essential part of his construction team. Mills’ first major […] … Read MorePhilip Reid (1820-1892)
The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff was created by the Arkansas Legislative Act of 1873. The University was established for the “convenience and well-being of the poorer classes” which meant African Americans in the state. The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff is the … Read More … Read MoreUniversity of Arkansas Pine Bluff (1873- )
[…] art critic Bernard Berenson, whom she met in 1909 in New York. Berenson was married and lived in Italy with his wife, Mary. Berenson and Greene often traveled together, in search of rare works, and shared a love of Islamic manuscripts and miniatures. Her […] … Read MoreBelle da Costa Greene (1883-1950)
