North America – Mexico
Pio de Jesus Pico (1801-1894)
Pio Pico was the last governor of Mexican California. He was of African, Indian, and Spanish ancestry. He was born...
Henry Ossian Flipper (1856-1940)
Born near Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856, Henry O. Flipper rose to prominence as the first African American graduate...
Thyra J. Edwards (1897-1953)
Thyra J. Edwards, born in 1897, the granddaughter of runaway slaves, grew up in Houston, Texas and started her career there...
William Alexander Leidesdorff (1810-1848)
Although little remembered today, Leidesdorff was a social, economic, and political force in pre-gold rush San Francisco, California with a...
(1849) Frederick Douglass, “On Mexico”
Image Ownership: Public Domain On June 8, 1849, Frederick Douglass gave a major oration at Faneuil Hall in Boston soon...
(1848) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
February 2, 1848 In the name of Almighty God The United States of America and the United Mexican States animated...
Vicente Guerrero (1783-1831)
Vicente Guerrero, the second President of Mexico, was born in the small village of Tixla in what is now the...
Plan of San Diego, 1915
In early 1915, a Spanish document appeared in the south Texas town of San Diego calling for Chicanos in the...
Texas Seminole Scouts
The Texas Seminole Scouts were descendants of runaway slaves who fled into Florida before the Civil War. The offer of...
