United States – Wyoming

Black Women and the Wyoming Women’s Suffrage Act (1869- )
Fifty years before the 19th Amendment was passed, Wyoming legislators enacted the Wyoming Women’s Suffrage Act in 1869. The bill...
February 9th, 2022

RuPaul Andre Charles (1960- )
RuPaul Andre Charles is an actor, model, singer, and drag queen, who is best known by his first name, RuPaul....
December 26th, 2021

Edwina “Curlie” Justus (1943- )
Edwina Justus, also known as “Curlie,” is the first African American woman locomotive engineer for the Union Pacific Railroad. She...
April 14th, 2021

Dana, Wyoming, A Black Town in the Coal Mining West
In the following article Wyoming historian Brigida R. Blasi explores the history of now nearly forgotten Dana, a small predominately...
March 13th, 2021

Robert G. Stanton (1940- )
Robert George ‘Bob’ Stanton is a retired career civil-service employee of the National Park Service. On August 4, 1997, he...
February 16th, 2021

Jerome A. Holmes (1961- )
Jerome A. Holmes, is the first African American to serve as an United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the...
November 16th, 2020

Joel Woodson (?-1918)
Joel Woodson of Omaha, Nebraska was lynched by a mob in Green River, Wyoming on December 10, 1918 at the...
August 19th, 2019

Wade Hampton (?-1917)
Wade Hampton was a Wyoming lynching victim. He was taken from the Rock Springs city jail by three men who...
August 19th, 2019

Empire, Wyoming (1908-1930)
Empire, Wyoming was an African American community founded in 1908 by Charles and Rosetta Speese along with three of Charles’...
June 29th, 2019