Black History – Other Pioneers

Charles H. Wright (1918-2002)
Charles Howard Wright was a Detroit physician and founder of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. He...
February 8th, 2023

Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995)
Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995), a scholar-librarian and bibliographer was born in Warrenton, Virginia in 1905, to her father, Hayes Joseph...
January 20th, 2010

George Washington Williams (1849-1891)
George Washington Williams was a 19th-century Baptist minister, Civil War veteran, attorney, and politician who was the first African American...
January 23rd, 2008

Remembering Sara Dunlap Jackson (1919-1991)
In 1944 Sara Dunlap Jackson became one of the first African American professionals hired by the National Archives in Washington,...
October 23rd, 2007