United States – Arkansas
Black Composers and Musicians in Classical Music History
Utilizing the research of Professor Dominique-René de Lerma of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, historian William J. Zick in the...
Joycelyn Minnie Elders (1933- )
Joycelyn Elders, the former U.S. Surgeon General, was born Minnie Lee Jones in Schaal, Arkansas on August 13, 1933, to Curtis and Hailer Jones;...
Working the Quincy Mill: African American Lumber Mill Workers in Northern California, 1926-1955
Economic opportunity motivated millions of early 20th Century African Americans to leave the segregated South. Most of the people of...
Alphonse Trent Orchestra
Jazz arose in 19th century America from music brought from West Africa by slaves. It is therefore not surprising that...
Margaret Garner Incident (1856)
Best known as the inspiration for Toni Morrison’s award winning novel, Beloved, The Margaret Garner Incident of 1856 contains one...
John H. Johnson (1918-2005)
Born in Arkansas City, Arkansas on January 19, 1918, publisher, philanthropist, businessman, entrepreneur, John Harold Johnson became the leading 20th...
Danny K. Davis (1941- )
Danny K. Davis was born in Parkdale, Arkansas on September 6, 1941, the son of a sharecropper. He received a...
Langston City Herald
The Langston City Herald was a black newspaper based in the Oklahoma Territory but with circulation throughout the South. The...
Bass Reeves (1838-1910)
Bass Reeves was the first African American commissioned to serve as a deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi River. ...
