by RixonKarla | Nov 17, 2010 | African American History, People
Marlon Riggs was a black gay writer, filmmaker, and social activist. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas to a military family on February 3, 1957, and spent his childhood at various military posts, including time spent living in Georgia and Germany. Riggs graduated with...
by PartinElliot | Nov 17, 2010 | African American History, Encyclopedia Entry Type, Groups & Organizations
The 1st Rhode Island Regiment was a Continental Army regiment during the American Revolutionary War. The 1st Rhode Island Regiment became known as the “Black Regiment” due to its allowing the recruitment of African Americans in 1778. This decision,...
by Taryn Darling | Nov 16, 2010 | African American History, People
Charlotte E. Ray was the first black woman attorney in the United States and the first woman to practice law in Washington, D.C. Ray was born on January 13, 1850, in New York City to her mother, Charlotte Augusta Burroughs Ray, and her father, a prominent...
by MackDwayne | Nov 15, 2010 | African American History, People
Francis Johnson, musician, composer, and bandmaster, was born in 1792 in Martinique in the West Indies and emigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1809 at the age of 17. By that point, he had already mastered the keyed bugle and the violin. By his early 20s, he...
by MackDwayne | Nov 15, 2010 | African American History, People
Thomas “Les” Purce, politician, businessman, educator, university administrator, and grandson of pioneering Black Idahoans, was born on November 13, 1946, to John and Idaho Purce in Pocatello, Idaho. His grandfather, Tracey Thompson, was a well-known Idaho rodeo...
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