by LeichnerHelen | Oct 29, 2010 | African American History, People
Born two decades before American women won the right to vote, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander overcame obstacles as a woman and also as an African American in the elite profession of law. In 1927 she became the first Black woman to gain admission to the Pennsylvania...
by BenjaminWinston | Oct 26, 2010 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
The C.R. Patterson & Sons Company was a carriage building firm, and the first African American-owned automobile manufacturer. The company was founded by Charles Richard Patterson, who was born into slavery in April 1833 on a plantation in Virginia. His parents...
by BeyMarquis | Oct 26, 2010 | African American History, People
William DeHart Hubbard was the first African American to win a gold medal at the Olympics as an individual, placing first in the running long jump. Hubbard was born on November 25, 1903, in Cincinnati, Ohio and attended Walnut Hills High School in that city. Hubbard’s...
by TravisTrysh | Oct 26, 2010 | African American History, People
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] George Edwin Taylor Minidoc Born in the pre-Civil War South to a mother who was free and a father who was enslaved, George Edwin Taylor would become the first African American selected by a political party to be its candidate for...
by TsakaniasCaroline | Oct 25, 2010 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Oberlin College which was named Oberlin Collegiate Institute until 1850, is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. In 1833, Presbyterian ministers John Jay Sipherd and Philo P. Stewart founded the institution as a college preparatory institute to promote...
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