United States – Pennsylvania
Father Divine (c.1876-1965)
Father Divine, founder of the International Peace Missions Movement, was a religious leader, businessman, and civil rights activist. He was...
Joseph Hayne Rainey (1832-1887)
In 1870 Republican Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African American to be elected to the United States House of...
Winston E. Scott (1950- )
Winston Elliott Scott, a former Navy Captain and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut, was born on August 6,...
James DePreist (1936-2013)
The African American conductor James DePreist was the nephew of the singer Marian Anderson. DePreist was the Permanent Conductor of...
Federal Theatre Project (Negro Units)
In 1935, in the middle of the Great Depression President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Administration created the Works Progress Administration Federal...
Adam Clayton Powell Sr. (1865-1953)
Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. was born on May 5, 1865, in Franklin County, Virginia to former slaves of African American,...
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...
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...
John Hiram Jackson (1912-1997)
John Hiram Jackson was born November 16, 1912 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Both his parents were Virginians, and his maternal grandfather,...
