United States – Montana
Booker T. Washington’s Visit to Spokane (1913)
In 1913 the famous African American activist and educator Booker T. Washington left Tuskegee, Alabama, to begin a speaking tour...
The Harlem Renaissance in the American West
In the following article historians Bruce Glasrud and Cary Wintz discuss their new book, The Harlem Renaissance in the American...
24th Infantry Regiment (1866-1951)
When the U.S. Army was reorganized on July 28, 1866, for peacetime service after the American Civil War, six regiments...
Horace W. Bivins (1862-1937)
Horace Waymon Bivins, a Buffalo Soldier, was born on May 8, 1862, in Accomack County, Virginia. His father Severn S....
William H. Wilson (?-?)
William H. Wilson established The Northwest Enterprise, a Seattle, Washington weekly newspaper for the African American community, in 1920 and...
Buffalo Soldiers in Montana (1888-1898)
Between 1866 and 1917, African American soldiers served throughout the western United States, including the territory and later state of...
Susan Smith McKinney Steward (1847-1918)
Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward was the first African American woman to earn a medical doctorate (M.D.) in New York...
Defending Nikkei: Hugh MacBeth and the Japanese American Internment
In the account below University of Quebec at Montreal historian Greg Robinson describes the activies of Hugh MacBeth, a black...
Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Montana (1890- )
The Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in Great Falls, Montana, is one of the state’s oldest active churches. It is also...
