by AnthonyDavidHIIIPhD | Dec 30, 2009 | Global African History, Perspectives
In the following article historian Omar H. Ali explores a lesser-known aspect of the global African Diaspora, the spread of African peoples and their cultures throughout the Indian Ocean basin. Africans had become a visible part of the Indian Ocean world long before...
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by HowardMikelle | Dec 20, 2009 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Lincoln University is a public university located in Jefferson City, the capital of Missouri. It is a member of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and was founded in 1866 by members of the 62nd and 65th United States Colored Infantry and as such...
by VictoriaBishop | Dec 20, 2009 | African American History, People
William Attaway, writer and composer, was born in Greenville, Mississippi. His mother, Florence Parry Attaway, worked as a teacher and his father, William Alexander Attaway, was a doctor who helped create the National Negro Insurance Association. In the 1910s, the...
by KastnerCharles | Dec 20, 2009 | African American History, People
Grant Reynolds was a civic leader, civil rights activist, World War II chaplain, attorney, and educator. He was best known as a leading force in ending segregation in the United States Armed Forces. Reynolds was born July 29, 1908 in Key West, Florida to Emma Flowers...
by SmithCraigMarshall | Dec 20, 2009 | African American History, People
Writer Ann Petry was born Ann Lane on October 12, 1908, to pharmacist Peter Clark Lane, Jr. and podiatrist Bertha James Lane in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Like her father, Ann was trained as a pharmacist and practiced in the family’s drugstores in Old Saybrook. ...
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