by KylaMurray | Dec 31, 2008 | African American History, Encyclopedia Entry Type, Events
The Orangeburg Massacre took place in Orangeburg, South Carolina at South Carolina State University on February 8, 1968. This horrific incident ended with three young men killed, Samuel Hammond, Henry Smith, and Delano Middleton, and twenty-seven other students...
by KylaMurray | Dec 31, 2008 | African American History, People
Macon Bolling Allen was one of the first Black men in the United States licensed to practice law. Born Allen Macon Bolling in 1816 in Indiana, he grew up a free man. Bolling learned to read and write on his on his own and eventually landed his first a job as a...
by LaneHaley | Dec 31, 2008 | African American History, People
Otis Redding was one of the great American soul singers, who, although only enjoying a short career due to his early death in a plane crash at the age of 26, has been described as the embodiment of soul and one of the most important cultural icons of the civil rights...
by LaneHaley | Dec 31, 2008 | African American History, People
In 2006 Sophia Danenberg became the first African American and first Black woman from anywhere in the world to climb the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest in the Himalayas (Nepal). Sophia Marie Scott was born in 1972 in Homewood, Illinois (a southern suburb...
by Emily Ezar | Dec 30, 2008 | African American History, People
Alvin Childress is best remembered for his role as the philosophical easy-going character Amos on the Amos n’ Andy show, a popular all-black cast sitcom of the early 1950s that depicted the antics of three friends in Harlem. Childress was born on September 15, 1907 in...
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