by KinsonChristopher | Dec 29, 2010 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
The Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers in Richmond, Virginia was the first bank owned by African Americans in the United States. It was founded on March 2, 1888 by Reverend William Washington Browne and opened on April 3, 1889. Although...
by BeyMarquis | Dec 29, 2010 | African American History, People
Perry Young Jr, an airplane and helicopter pilot, was the first African American person to be hired by a commercial airline with regularly scheduled passenger flights. Young was born to his parents, Henry Young Sr. and Edith Lucille Young, on March 12, 1919, in...
by CarverGaytonPhD | Dec 29, 2010 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Norfolk State University (NSU), one of the largest historically black universities in the nation, was founded in 1935. The university began as the Norfolk State Unit, a branch of Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia. This college was the only predominantly...
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by Emily Ezar | Dec 23, 2010 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in the nation, was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1794 by Richard Allen, a former slave. Allen founded Mother Bethel AME after the church he had been...
by BrackettJohnK | Dec 23, 2010 | African American History, People
Max Robinson was an American broadcast journalist for ABC News and served as a co-anchor for ABC World News Tonight. He was the first African American broadcast network news anchor in the history of American television. He was also one of the original founders of the...
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