Melanie Morgan is the current Washington State Representative for the 29th Legislative District representing South Tacoma, East Lakewood, Springbrook, Parkland, Spanaway, and West Fredrickson. Representative Morgan grew up in international locations. She then served in the US Army. She attended Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, … Read More … Read MoreMelanie Morgan (1967- )
[…] Church. Later that year he recorded “Peace Be Still,” a Baptist hymnal standard of the same title, composed by Horatio Palmer and Mary Ann Baker in 1874. The song was released by Savoy Records and dominated Billboard’s Spiritual charts, selling more than 800,000 units […] … Read MoreJames Cleveland (1931-1991)
[…] National Cemetery and other official gravesites. Johnson used his earnings from this work to open a grocery store which his first wife, Mary Alice Hayes, managed. The couple had married on December 23, 1875, but divorced shortly afterward. Johnson then became a reclusive alcoholic. […] … Read MoreCalvin Fackler Johnson (1844–1925)
[…] point Saint Paul’s Normal and Industrial School trained teachers for the segregated schools of Virginia as well as the neighboring states of Maryland and North Carolina. In 1941 the institution adopted a new name, St. Paul’s Polytechnic Institute, when the state granted it the […] … Read MoreSaint Paul’s College of Virginia (1888- )
[…] group of Fort Des Moines’s graduating class of black commissioned officers—Irma Jackson Cayton, Vera Ann Harrison, Frances Alexander, Violet Askins, Natalie Donaldson, Mary Kearney, and Corrie Sherard—auxiliaries ably performed clerical and administrative work as stenographers, typists, telephone switchboard operators, clerks, messengers, reception ists, and […] … Read More32nd and 33rd WAACS Headquarters Companies (World War II)
[…] children. Weeden painted one portrait from an 1849 photograph of Henny Jackson Smith who was the servant of George A. Washington’s wife, Jane Smith and who lived on the Forks of the Cypress Plantation in Florence, Alabama. Alex Haley’s ancestors were enslaved on that […] … Read MoreThe Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: One Tennessee Community’s Odyssey from Slavery to Freedom
Louis-Benoit Zamor is best known for helping to send French Aristocrat Madame Jeanne du Barry to the guillotine during the French Revolution (1789-1794). Born in Chittagong, India (present-day Bengal), probably of Siddi ancestry (the Siddi were Indians of African descent), Zamor’s birth year is generally … Read More … Read MoreLouis-Benoit Zamor (1762-1820)
[…] the San Francisco NAACP, the National Black United Fund, the National Newspaper Publishers Association, California Black Leadership Conference, and the William L. Patterson Foundation. He also served on the numerous boards including that of Morehouse Medical College and the World Peace Council and was […] … Read MoreCarlton B. Goodlett (1914-1997)
[…] Globe. In 1974, she broke new ground for black actors when she received an Emmy award for her portrayal of the character Jane Pittman, based on a novel written by Ernest J. Gaines. Her performance made her one of the premier actresses of her […] … Read MoreCicely Tyson (1933-2021)
[…] minor characters (e.g. Charles Sumner), highlighting the geographic, socioeconomic, and racial tensions in the country. Two people central to this drama are Mary Todd Lincoln and her companion Elizabeth Keckley (a link to Keckley’s book can be found here) and their importance/influence in Lincoln’s […] … Read MoreLincoln: the man, the movie, the rest of us
