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...
RuPaul Andre Charles (1960- )
RuPaul Andre Charles is an actor, model, singer, and drag queen, who is best known by his first name, RuPaul....
Edwina “Curlie” Justus (1943- )
Edwina Justus, also known as “Curlie,” is the first African American woman locomotive engineer for the Union Pacific Railroad. She...
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...
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...
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...
Joel Woodson (?-1918)
Joel Woodson of Omaha, Nebraska was lynched by a mob in Green River, Wyoming on December 10, 1918 at the...
Wade Hampton (?-1917)
Wade Hampton was a Wyoming lynching victim. He was taken from the Rock Springs city jail by three men who...
Empire, Wyoming (1908-1930)
Empire, Wyoming was an African American community founded in 1908 by Charles and Rosetta Speese along with three of Charles’...
