by GarnerCarlaW | Jan 21, 2011 | African American History, People
Editor and bibliophile Henry Proctor Slaughter is best remembered for his vast collection of rare documents on African American history. The son of former slaves, a young Slaughter questioned the biased treatment of slavery in his school textbooks, and he spent a...
by RobinsonEdwardJ | Jan 19, 2011 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
The Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) is a Christian, ecumenical, graduate professional school of theology located on the Atlanta University campus in Atlanta, Georgia. The ITC began in 1958 when four schools of theology united to form the Center:...
by SlattaRichard | Jan 19, 2011 | Global African History, Perspectives
In the following account North Carolina State University historian Richard Slatta explores the little known history and heritage of South American cowboys of African and mixed race background. Many students of frontier societies, most notably Frederick Jackson Turner,...
by GarnerCarlaW | Jan 18, 2011 | African American History, People
Vivian Gordon Harsh was the first African American librarian in the Chicago Public Library system and a significant contributor to Chicago’s Black Renaissance. In 1932 she was appointed head librarian of the George Cleveland Hall Branch, the city’s first...
by HegazyAbdallah | Jan 16, 2011 | Global African History, People
Tom Mboya, born on August 15, 1930 in Kilimambogo, Kenya on a sisal plantation estate, was a Kenyan nationalist, trade union leader, and government minister. His parents were Luo agricultural workers who, as recently converted Catholics, sent him to mission schools...
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