by AdamsChelsea | Dec 16, 2007 | African American History, People
Charles Diggs was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1922. His father was Charles Coles Diggs, and his mother was Mayme Jones Diggs. Young Diggs had an upper-middle-class background; his father, a prominent mortician and real estate developer, served in the Michigan State...
by MeakinKate | Dec 16, 2007 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
The Niagara Movement was a civil rights group organized by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter in 1905. After being denied admittance to hotels in Buffalo, New York, the group of twenty-nine business owners, teachers, and clergy who comprised the initial...
by RooseHolly | Dec 16, 2007 | African American History, Encyclopedia Entry Type, Events
The Scottsboro Boys were nine young black men, falsely accused of raping two white women on board a train near Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931. Convicted and facing execution, the case of Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell, Clarence Norris, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson,...
by RooseHolly | Dec 16, 2007 | African American History, People
Miriam Matthews was the first African American librarian in the Los Angeles Public Library system. Hired in 1927, she served in the library until her retirement in 1960 where she was instrumental in preserving the history and cultural heritage of black Angelenos....
by EguKenChiedozie | Dec 16, 2007 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
In March 1897 the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature created a land grant college to train African American teachers, calling it the Colored Agricultural and Normal University. Classes opened in the fall of 1898 in a church in the town of Langston. Langston had been...
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