United States – Texas
Fay Jackson (1902-1988)
As a generation of young African Americans broke new artistic and political ground in the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s,...
Blanche McSmith (1920-2006)
The black presence in Alaska has been severely under-recorded. This is particularly the case for the role of African American...
Alyce Faye Wattleton (1943- )
Alyce Faye Wattleton, born in St. Louis, Missouri on July 8, 1943, became both the youngest person and the first...
Lee P. Brown (1937- )
Lee Patrick Brown, known as “The Father of Community Policing,” became the first African American Mayor of Houston, Texas in...
Emanuel Cleaver (1944- )
Reverend Emanuel Cleaver II, born in Waxahachie, Texas in 1944, is best known as the first African American mayor of...
Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924- )
Evelyn Boyd was born in Washington, D.C. on May 1st, 1929, the second daughter of William and Julia Boyd. Though...
James Kelly (ca. 1839-1912)
James “Jim” Kelly, born in Williamson County, Texas, was the son of manumitted slaves, “Uncle Amos” and “Aunt Phoebe” Kelly,...
James Farmer, Jr. (1920-1999)
James Farmer was born in Marshall, Texas on January 12, 1920, the grandson of a slave, and son of a...
George Foreman (1949- )
George Edward Foreman was born in Marshall, Texas on January 10, 1949 and raised in Houston’s Fifth Ward. He took...
