by CrowleyWalterC | Mar 29, 2010 | Global African History, Perspectives
In 2009 W. Mae Kent, published Titanic: The Untold Story, the first historical fiction novel on the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic which makes it’s central character, Nathan Badeau Legarde, a black man. The inspiration for her story came from Joseph Phillipe Lemercier...
by SlaughterMichael | Mar 18, 2010 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
North Carolina Central University (NCCU) is a public, four-year coeducational historically black liberal arts university located in Durham, North Carolina. The small urban campus is located 23 miles from Raleigh, North Carolina. North Carolina Central University was...
by MiyamotoMelodyM | Mar 18, 2010 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Medical Center opened in 1971 as a result of lobbying efforts by civil rights and antipoverty activists to bring a high quality medical facility to the primarily black residents in South Central Los Angeles. Ted Watkins, the founder of the...
by MiyamotoMelodyM | Mar 18, 2010 | African American History, Events
A coalition of antipoverty organizations and black nationalist groups initiated the Watts Summer Festival in 1966 as a way to focus the Watts community on celebrating black heritage and culture annually on the anniversary of the Watts riots. Although the groups...
by GiffinSusan | Mar 18, 2010 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
Between 1866 and 1917, African American soldiers served throughout the western United States, including the territory and later state of Montana. Beginning in 1888, the 24th and 25th Infantries and the 9th and 10th Cavalries would be stationed throughout Montana at...
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