Former Naval officer Gerald Eustis Thomas served as United States Ambassador to Guyana and Kenya. Born in Natick, Massachusetts, on June 23, 1929, to Walter and Leila Thomas, President Ronald W. Reagan appointed Gerald E. Thomas to both ambassadorships. Thomas began his undergraduate studies at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska. He transferred to Harvard … Read MoreGerald E. Thomas (1929-2019)
David Satcher, physician, educator, and administrator, was born in Anniston, Alabama, on March 2, 1941 to Wilmer and Anne Satcher. In 1963, Satcher graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned an M.D. and Ph.D. in cytogenetics from Case Western Reserve University in 1970. In 1979, Satcher became … Read MoreDavid Satcher (1941- )
Owen Monconduit is a retired brigadier general in the United States Army, who, in 2009, became the first African American to be promoted to the rank of general in the Louisiana National Guard. Monconduit, a native of Pineville, Louisiana, joined the National Guard in 1980 as part … Read MoreOwen Monconduit (1961- )
An experimental psychologist, Gloria Twine Chisum, is primarily known for developing protective eyewear for pilots in extreme conditions. Chisum was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1930. She grew up in Muskogee but then attended Howard University, where she earned an undergraduate degree in psychology in 1951 and completed an MS … Read MoreGloria Twine Chisum (1930- )
Philip Emeagwali is a computer scientist who is best known for utilizing the connection machine and 65,536 microprocessors to achieve 3.1 billion calculations per second, the fastest computational record at the time. Emeagwali was born on August 23rd, 1954, in Akure, Nigeria, to James and Agatha … Read MorePhilip Emeagwali (1954- )
Alfred L. Cralle was an African American businessman and inventor best known for inventing the ice cream scoop in 1897. Cralle was born on September 4, 1866, in Kenbridge, Lunenburg County, Virginia, just after the end of the American Civil War. He attended local schools and worked for his father in … Read MoreAlfred L. Cralle (1866–1920)
William E. “Kip” Ward is a former 4-star general. War was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 6, 1949, to Richard Isiah Ward and Phyllis Mary Ward. He graduated from Morgan State University in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He was a distinguished Army … Read MoreWilliam E. Ward (1949- )
Over the course of three decades in the early twentieth century, Dr. William Harry Barnes greatly influenced the field of otolaryngology, a medical subspecialty focused on the ear, nose, throat, and related structures of the head and neck. An accomplished surgeon and researcher, Barnes used his surgical acumen … Read MoreWilliam Harry Barnes (1887-1945)
The 1900 New York City, New York Race Riot began following an incident between Arthur J. Harris, a black man, and a white undercover police officer, Robert J. Thorpe, outside the apartment of Harris and his girlfriend May Enoch in the Tenderloin section of New York City. At … Read MoreThe New York City Race Riot (1900)
