Olga “Ollie” Burgoyne, also known as Ollie Burgoyne-Calloway, was a singer and dancer specializing in Russian and other ethnic dances. She was also an actress and businesswoman who gained popularity during the Harlem Renaissance and left her mark as one of the most influential African … Read More … Read MoreOlga (Ollie) Burgoyne (1879-1974)
In the following article, Russian DJ Ivan Tchijevsky describes exclusively for BlackPast.org the long history of black music and black musical performers in Russia. Writing from a musical festival in Odessa, Ukraine in June 2019, he outlines his views below. As I visit festivals of … Read More … Read MoreThe Afro-Beat in Russia: The Influence of Black Music on Russian Popular Culture, 1890-2002
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] National Museum of African American History and Culture Minidoc The National Museum The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Alabama Birmingham Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Montgomery The National … Read More … Read MoreAfrican American Museums
George Washington Lee was an African American civil rights leader, minister, and entrepreneur. On May 7, 1955, Lee was murdered by white supremacists in Belzoni, Mississippi. Lee’s murder was one of two key events that occurred in Mississippi in 1955, along with the Emmett Till … Read More … Read MoreGeorge Washington Lee (1903-1955)
Archibald Grimke was born enslaved in Charleston, South Carolina in 1849. After the Civil War, Archibald and his younger brother Francis, enrolled at Lincoln University. Archibald graduated in 1872 and then entered Harvard Law School. After graduation he practiced in Boston. By the 1880s Grimke … Read More … Read More(1920) Archibald Grimke, “The Shame of America, or the Negro’s Case Against the Republic”
Turkiya L. Lowe, historian and public history scholar, is the National Park Service’s (NPS) first African American and first woman Chief Historian and Deputy Federal Preservation Officer. Lowe was born to Vincent L. Small and Patricia D. Lowe on December 1, 1977 and grew up … Read More … Read MoreTurkiya L. Lowe (1977- )
We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief From a Crime of The United States Government Against the Negro People (1951) Introduction: Out of the inhuman black ghettos of American cities, out of the cotton plantations of the South, comes this … Read More … Read More(1951) We Charge Genocide
Abraham Galloway, freedom-fighter, spy, abolitionist, and politician, is an unsung hero of American history. Galloway was born a slave on February 8, 1837 in Smithville (now Southport), North Carolina, the son of an enslaved woman and a white boatman. Little is known about his youth, … Read More … Read MoreAbraham Galloway (1837-1870)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] National Museums The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Washington, D.C. Groundbreaking for the Smithsonian African American History Community Alabama Birmingham Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Montgomery The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum Montgomery Rosa Parks Library … Read More … Read MoreAfrican American Museums
Educator and HCBU President Lionel Hodge Newsom was born on November 11, 1919 in Wichita Falls, Texas, to Lawson and Georgia (McCullough) Newsom. He attended the local school, and enrolled into Lincoln University, Missouri where he became member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Newsom graduated … Read More … Read MoreLionel Hodge Newsom (1919-1991)
